Description: The author discusses her time working in LTCI and how her views regarding the effect of volatility and uncertainty have evolved over this time.

Description: This report describes the results of a survey on reflecting risk in pricing. The survey expands on one conducted in 2003 and was expanded to include life, health, P&C, and non-North American insurance companies.

Description: Impaired annuities - a niche product marketed to people at the “at-need” edge of long-term care and has the potential to instruct in bridging the gap for the products now being marketed to people “pre-need.” From Long-Term Care, Dec 2003, Issue No. 10

Description: Sue Blanck is an endorsed candidate for elected Board Member for SOA's 2017 elections. Read her candidate questionnaire.

Description: This essay discusses the long overdue effciencies that would improve the quality of healthcare in the United States.

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: In session 120 PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting panelists discuss new developments and strategies related to provider contracting. What changes in the risk-sharing arrangements are occurring? What contracting methodologies have been successful and what ones have not? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000. Traditional methods of managing medical costs that were effective in the past might no longer be worth the same level of investment. This session addresses new strategies that are being developed for tomorrow.

Description: Learn how medical coding, claims, data-sourcing and more are relevant to actuarial work in the health care field when you sign up for this SOA e-course.

Description: This is the Health Section News, August 2005, Issue 50 and discusses accessing and using public data: A primer for the health actuary. Health data no longer is an afterthought but it is an essential component of health care delivery, payment and decisions.