Description: This presentation, session number 97PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The presenters look at the adequacy of state insurance regulation by examining the purpose and intent of the McCarran-Ferguson Act. They discuss the strengths and weaknesses of state regulation, and “whether the public interest is best served by 1 the states or the federal government being the primary regulators of insurance or 2 some system of bifurcated regulatory authority shared between the states and the federal government.” Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Long Term Care experience database is mined for evidence of improvement in insured population incidence rates.

Description: The article explores how deeply the Affordable Care Act reduced the Medicare Advantage benchmark payment rates and quantifies how much of that reduction Medicare Advantage Organizations earned back through quality bonuses.

Description: Evaluation of Taiwan's National Health insurance program and a discussion of a managed competition model to reform it.

Description: Discusses what the prevalent form of health-care financing will be in the future: Health Maintenance Organizations [HMOs], Preferred Provider Organizations [PPOs], Managed Care fee-for-service insurance contracts [Managed Care], and Triple-Option products. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session on Medicare+Choice [M+C] includes an update on risk adjustment methodology, legislative developments that are impacting the M+C program and measures taken by health-care companies to adapt to those changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 82pd.

Description: Successful healthcare reform: First, it must help that must keep healthy people healthy. Second, it must help people mitigate or eliminate the health-risks associated with unhealthy lifestyle behavior choices, and Third, it must ensure the provision of evidence-based care to those who are ill.

Description: How do combo products fit in the new statutory valuation framework?

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on national health insurance in Great Britain and Canada. Discussion items include plan features and costs, impact on providers from health care provided outside the national plan, inclusion of private health insurance and prepayment systems. Vol. 5 No. 4