Description: An overview of health care history and privatization developments in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil.

Description: Projecting start-up capital requirements for Health care co-ops and public plans

Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.

Description: Republicans have promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act for years. Now that they have power, what will Republican health care reform look like?

Description: This session discuses the Canadian health-care system including hospital perspective, general Medicare concerns, budget constraints, increasing costs, and private insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: Panel session discussion of how universal access, quality of care, and controlling health care costs are being addressed in Latin American countries.

Description: Summary of House of Representatives Tri-Committee Bill – H.R. 3200.

Description: The paper addresses the issue of cost-sharing reductions under the Affordable Care Act.

Description: A defense of the CLASS Act from the perspective of the private long term care insurance industry.

Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.