Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. The panelists discussed the primary issues underlying market conduct concerns, as well as possible approaches to evaluating litigation from an actuarial and economists' perspective.

Description: Presenters at session 99 OF of the Maui II Spring Meeting discuss current issues involved in providing stop-loss coverage for provider-sponsored organization PSOs, managed care health plans, and self-funded groups. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This presentation from Session 8L of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting is about analyzing the effectiveness of health care measures as reported by managed care organizations. The discussion focuses on HEDIS, a standardized definition for producing health plan report cards, primarily aimed at health maintenance organizations [HMOs]. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: By rationing heath care resources, managed-care organizations have raised ethical and legal issues not commonly found under previous health-care-financing structures. Panelists, including a member of the Board and the Executive Committee of the American Medical Association [AMA], and the audience debate this issue. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Discusses sources of traditional agent issues, trends in employer-sponsored sales, successes with financial institutions, and developments in direct-response marketing. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This presentation from Session 78PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting discusses state health-care reform over the past decade and offers insights as to what has worked, what hasn't, and what has been a total disaster. The panelists further discuss the states' responses to reforms that simply have not worked and the industry's response to this challenging environment. Finally, they share their ideas of the direction they expect to see state-level reforms to take. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the wide variety of proposals in Congress to reform the health care/insurance system including Medicare and Medicaid.

Description: The panel examined the trend of a large proportion of new and in-force business being ceded by direct-writing companies into the reinsurance marketplace. Questions addressed: 1. Is there a difference of opinion on mortality assumptions between the reinsurer and the direct writer? If so, who's right? 2. If the reinsurer is right, what are the implications to the direct writer? 3. If the direct writer is right, what are the implications to the reinsurer? 4. Are there other driving forces behind the large amounts being ceded?

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews long-term care LTC products. Discussion topics include product design, pricing administration, regulation, marketing and AARP. From the Record of the Society of Acturaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.