Description: Panelists discuss the various types of risks in health insurance and health-care delivery, and various types of risk-absorption mechanisms for sharing these risks among providers, insurers, employers, and employees. In addition, they address the management of the risk from a corporate perspective, which will include bottom-line earnings and marketing goals and objectives. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: Health care payment is shifting from the predominant fee-for-service model to value-based models to better control costs and improve quality.

Description: How Vitality's Shared Value insurance model aligns the incentives of policyholders with insurer to improve health and create and share actuarial surplus.

Description: The SOA released a report titled Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform, which looks at the impact on insurance markets, pricing and profitability.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about federal regulations versus state regulations. Topics included: 1. Status of Dingell/Metzenbaum bills and Industry response. 2. The McCarren-Ferguson Act, and recent developments in that area. 3. Bills that address the issue of redlining in insurance. 4. The Disclosure of Insurance Availability Information bill. 5. Heath care reform initiatives.

Description: This report presents the results of a 2005 telephone study among Americans ages 45 to 80. The purpose of the study was to evaluate Americans' awareness of potential financial risks, how this awareness impacts the management of their finances with respect to retirement and how Americans are managing the process of leaving the workforce.

Description: This far-ranging discussion of health insurance and employee pensions discussed expansion of health insurance plans to encompass the additional forms of medical care and treatment, intercompany studies of mortality and morbidity, accidental death coverage are written on a twenty-four-hour basis or as travel accident, dental care insurance, survivorship benefits, employer-sponsored death benefits incorporated into qualified pension plans, and other topics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol 15 Pt. 2

Description: Future Farmers of America was the dream of a suburban boy in Wisconsin. John Clay loved the idea of driving tractors, working with equipment, and taking care of the land. Life took him in the direction to become an elementary school teacher, and he was able to combine his passions for education and farming by providing a lawn service that went well beyond your basic lawn care. This article shares a heart-warming story of how a gracious individual can positively affect a community

Description: Full version of Health Section News, April 2004, Issue No. 47.