Description: This session is about managed workers' compensation/24-hour health care current activities, legal considerations, casualty actuary perspective, and potential role of utilization review organizations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: In this session 114 PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting, Social Security and Medicare experts separate fact from fiction to give you insight into the sovency of the systems and proposals for change. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about current issues in U.S. social security and Medicare programs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 33PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. Current information on experience trends in public and private long term disability [LTD] programs is essential for use in pricing and valuation work. In this session, the speakers, including representatives from the Social Security Administration and the Society of Actuaries Group Disability Experience Committee, discuss the recent morbidity experience that they have observed in their respective programs, the Social Security disability program, and the private LTD insurance market. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.

Description: This report is a summary of a meeting session that occurred at the SOA's 1976 Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The general discussion was related to employee benefit plans funding and cost. Specific topics covered included: impact of inflation on non-pension benefit plans, methods used to cope with inflation, and the effect of social insurance on inflation.

Description: Policymakers often turn to elaborate computer models to assess the effect of proposed changes in Social Security or pension laws and regulations. At this session, descriptions of these models and their methods are presented, including a review of the models' capabilities and limitations. The potential for use by actuaries in connection with these models is also discussed. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses the public policy issues regarding access to health insurance coverage. In particular, the speakers focus on the problem of the uninsured and on the debate of shifting from a primarily employer-sponsored financing of health-care coverage to an individual market system or greater government subsidies.

Description: In session 122 IF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the results of research that addresses the issue of whether Social Security is a regressive system with respect to both the Canadian and U.S. Social Security programs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session discusses: 1. The Robert Wood Johnson RWJ - public/private partnership, 2. the Hawaii initiative, 3. the American Association of Retired Persons - AARP - position and 4. federal initiatives with respect to long term care financing

Description: In session 121IF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the results of a special National Academy on Aging research project on issues related to the aging of our society. Also examined are new areas for actuarial involvement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.