Description: Full version of Health Section News, April 2003, Issue No. 45.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, July 2007, Issue No. 60.

Description: Discussion regarding who's to blame for cost increase, Government's role to ensure coverage and keep costs down, steps to control costs, plan design changes. Issue No. 47.

Description: Discussion of steps that can be taken to control costs and future plan design changes. Part 2 of a 2 part series. Issue No. 48.

Description: David Dranove, the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University, Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management speaks on the topic, “From Marcus Welby to Managed Care.” From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 18

Description: An article that provides an actuary's opinion of why health insurance reform will work and believes that Congress should use insurance reform as the cornerstone for successful legislation.

Description: Panel discusses trends in large health claims, recent experience, and future expectations, as well as the impact of managed care on large individual health claims under self-insured programs and under an HMO setting. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Current Issues In Stop Loss Market by Daniel L. Wolak from Health Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 41.

Description: Specific and aggregate stop loss insurance reinsurance is a product that has unique characteristics. The product is a special type of policy that covers employers or their self-funded employee benefit plans for larger health claims. The product has some unique reserving challenges for the health/reinsurance actuary.

Description: An article that illustrates an actuary's finding that that federal and state governments spend more dollars for health care than employers and individuals spend for health insurance plans.