Description: A discussion of reverse mortgages, and their suitability for meeting the long term care needs of seniors who want to stay in their homes.

Description: This 1997 presentation from the 32nd Actuarial Research Conference is about the challenges of an aging population on retirement, Social Security, Medicare and long term care. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1998, Vol. 1.

Description: Tidbits relate to contingent deferred annuities, wellness benefits in qualified long-term care contracts, and reactivating the active financing exception for insurance companies.

Description: This is a book review of 'The Rising Cost of Hospital Care' by Martin S. Feldstein, Ph.D. In general, the book proceeds from an analysis of how and how much hospital costs have risen to why they have risen.

Description: Provides a review of the available lapse experience for lapse-supported Life and Long-Term Care products.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents the results of risk adjuster research in health care assessment and discusses the potential use of risk adjusters in health care reform efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This session 107PD of the Colorado Springs Meeting presents recent trends in benefit design, cost, pricing, risk management, and delivery of behavioral health-care. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: This presentation from Session 116PD of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting provides an update of the current status of Medicaid reform efforts by the White House and Congress. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discuss Health Maintenance Organizaions [HMOs] including their hisotry, the marketplace, physician structures and relationships with HMOs, cost control issues and the future of HMOs.

Description: This article explores what American medicine might look like in the year 2000. The author asserts this will depend on the tradeoffs made between quality and availability on the one hand, and cost on the other hand.