Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses the public policy issues regarding access to health insurance coverage. In particular, the speakers focus on the problem of the uninsured and on the debate of shifting from a primarily employer-sponsored financing of health-care coverage to an individual market system or greater government subsidies.

Description: This paper examines how the costs in Canada of life insurance, medical care, disability, and retirement are impacted by increases in longevity. The paper then examines possible courses that policy action may take, and then proposes directions that employers may take in designing employee benefit programs.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on long term disability insurance examining the market, overinsurance problem, and new product designs.

Description: SMI Trust Fund: Estimates under Alternative II Assumption for Aged and Disabled Excluding End-Stage Renal Disease Enrollees from Pension Section News, October 2000, Issue No. 44.

Description: Cover article introducing this month's newsletter and discussing the highlights of the contents of the newsletter

Description: This article describes Singapore's Central Provident Fund and how it involves government, employers and employees in a cooperative partnership for mandatory savings and investment to assist with the primary lifetime goals of home ownership, medical care and retirement provision.