Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about marketing opportunities, marketing techniques, product selection and design.

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting is about open ended managed care plans from various perspectives including structure, marketing and actuarial issues.

Description: Essays show a new system that will encompass minor changes to the current health insurance system, it will allow consumers to sign up for Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan and be administered like Medicare but with more benefits and emphasis on preventive care.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the financial implications of managed care for health insurance profitability. Factors that affect profitability for managed care companies and health insurance companies are discussed.

Description: This report compares health care utilization and expenditures between individuals with Crohn’s disease who had used infliximab and those who had not. Claims data from the 1999-2003 Thomson Reuters MarketScan commercial claims and encounters databases and inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drug claims data of individuals older than 18 years of age with a diagnosis of Crohn’s were included.

Description: An essay discussing universal access to high quality, low cost health care.

Description: This 1981 session dealt with individual accident and health rate regulation issues. Topics included the history of regulations and their primary purpose or need. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: An essay suggesting a health care financing system.

Description: Open meeting of the Society's Health Benefit Systems Practice Advancement Committee and Health Section Council, as well as the American Academy of Actuaries' Health Practice Council. The three committees review ongoing projects in the Health Practice area. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.