Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications on subjects that include U.K. social insurance, financing of hospital care, state examinations of life companies, approximate valuation of life and health insurance, mortality forecasting, and valuing estate tax.

Description: This paper summarizes the legislative history in 1966 and 1967 of the amendments to Social Security, including Medicare and Medicaid, that were enacted and of the significant Unemployment Insurance legislation that was almost enacted. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 57.

Description: This discussion reviewed Social Insurance and the developments made in Congress during 1949, social security legislation in Canada and the experience to date with the National Health Services Act is examined. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.