Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest discussing the need for actuarial leadership in the reform of the U.S. health care system.

Description: This article takes a comparative review on Medicare and Private Health Insurance and examines the cost of administration. From Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses health insurance including the topics of the Washington loss ratio report, problems which lead to regulatory difficulties later on, claims monitoring, setting claim reserves and pricing individual health policies.

Description: Traditional methods of addressing reserves and liabilities have failed to cope with the problems of escalating claim costs, frequent rate increases, and different opinions as to what liabilities should be recognized. This paper reexamines these issues, discusses shortcomings of current methods and proposes a new approach to the total subject. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting give an update on legislative activity with respect to Medical Savings Accoutns [MSA], the MSA marketplace, and an overview of two mongraphs on the subject sponsored by the American Academy of Actuaries.

Description: Panelists discuss areas that actuaries must address as long-term-care insurance [LTCI] becomes a material portion of a company's business. These areas include IT problems, setting assumptions and reserves, surplus strain, and capital requirements. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 14OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This 1992 panel discussion is about the NAIC's proposed 'Guidelines for fling Premium Rates for Individual Accident and Health Insurance Companies.' Also discussed are the results of a survey of actuaries regarding proposed health rate filing guidelines that include higher loss ratios, guaranteed renewability, rate caps, and optional pre-filing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This discussion at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on methods and considerations that are currently being used in analyzing various risks of concern to the health valuation actuary. The session looks at concepts and types of risks, considerations and influences affecting the actuary, formulas and methods for evaluating risk, and the present status of the health insurance valuation actuary concept.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 38, Number 6, June 2004

Description: Presents ideas and discussion for improving Medicare so it may be financially sustainable