Description: An editorial about the status of health care reform in the U.S.

Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.

Description: This article is about how Canada's health care system has evolved since the first provincially funded system. The author incites actuaries to be proactive in supplying quantitative tools and to contribute to the public debate in addressing future changes.

Description: This article focuses on Jeffrey J. Nohl, who started his career as a credit insurance actuary. Nohl moved from the familiar insurer side of health care to the provider side. He is now the president of Aurora Health Network.

Description: Proposes new approaches to long–term care insurance products and marketing.

Description: This article describes how Long-Term Care riders attached to Life Insurance policies provide real insurance value at a reasonable cost and allow life insurance companies to compete on a basis other than cost.

Description: Discussion of developments with regards to addressing major medical care needs since 1959, including the passage of Medicare.

Description: This article provides comments from leading health actuaries on Clinton's health care proposal.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, that discusses rising health care costs and the challenge it is to actuaries to study the numerous causes and to devise practical means for modifying their effects.

Description: Article regarding enhancing Long-Term Care Insurance through cost sharing and utilization review. From The Actuary, December 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 10