Description: This is the English version of the research report, “Funding Public Health Insurance Plans Canada and Globally”. This report briefly looks at the actual health care funding models and metrics in seven countries (Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States) along with health care metrics for another 13 countries (20 OECD countries in total). This report also suggests a number of possible areas where actuaries could provide expertise to assist in the management of public health care plans.

Description: Update on LTC Section activities and other issues from the perspective of a Society of Actuaries' staff actuary.

Description: Chairperson's update on the Long-Term Care Insurance Section with a focus on the progress made since the Think Tank meeting held in October and the addition of Rhonda Ahrens to coordinate outreach to regulatory members.

Description: This session is about purchasing group health, distinctions between health alliances and health insurance purchasing cooperatives, and role in administration's proposal. It also covers proposed health care reform. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4A.

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 details a national report on health care. Most of the Report of the 1970 National Health Forum is given over to the formal papers and prepared commentaries thereon that served to stimulate discussion at the Forum. The papers themselves amount to statements by proponents of what were perceived to be three alternatives in the financing of health care and three alternatives in the organization of health care.

Description: This article provides some state officials' responses to a request for information from legislators related to the study and reform of Medicaid long-term care (LTC) eligibility and estate recovery rules. In those replies, there is strong evidence that Medicaid eligibility and estate recovery rules are subject to frequent and egregious abuses.

Description: Approaches to filing, approving and implementing LTC rate increases impact policyholder behavior regarding retaining/modifying their coverage.

Description: Transcript of the Q&A period from Session 5A. The paper presented proposes a new method to price the longevity risk premia in order to tackle the pricing obstacle.

Description: Outline of changes to the Adjust Community Rate ACR Proposal process and Beneficary Information Form, Issue No. 38

Description: This article talks about the new onsite clinic at Hewitt and how it benefits employees and employers.