Description: This session discusses the impact of rising costs and increased litigation on managed care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 133

Description: Discussion of types and amounts of benefits continued on retired employees and their dependents, the cost of continuance of pensioner benefits under the group plan and methods of financing benefits during active employment.

Description: The number of uninsured people in the United States has grown to over 40 million. Many possible solutions have been considered at both the federal and state levels to help alleviate the size and growth of the uninsured population. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 73PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting.

Description: Discusses health-care-cost reimbursement structures, from the facility/hospital perspective and the professional/doctor perspective. Also discusses risk-absorption methods. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This 1992 panel discussion is about regulations proposed or adopted by the NAIC, the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and states to regulate small group underwriting and rate guidelines. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: The discussion will review major elements of the reinsurance market as health care reform replaces traditional markets. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This discussion focuses on the significant aspects of the 1958 mortality experience under group life insurance policies, the significant aspects of the morbidity experience with respect to the various forms of group sickness and accident insurance policies, and the recent experience under individual policies converted from group life insurance or group medical expense insurance plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This session is about the Health insurance has become an important issue in this year's presidential election campaign. What effect will this have on the likelihood of major health-care reform, on public expectations about rights to health care, about perceptions of health insurers, etc? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.