Description: Essay discussing cost, quality and access of healthcare and then describes the need for rationing.

Description: This paper discusses the the continuing cost of health insurance coverage represents a major problem for most of us. However, the long-term continuation of the excess growth rate of the health care economy verses the rest of the economy has the potential makings of a major crisis.

Description: Essays show a new system that will encompass minor changes to the current health insurance system, it will allow consumers to sign up for Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan and be administered like Medicare but with more benefits and emphasis on preventive care.

Description: Essay stating Americans need to invent, implement, and evaluate sustainable health care policies, divert cash-flow streams away from projects which feed the beast and focus on projects and policies which enhance value. It will require a combination of thoughtful, coordinated policies and a change in our cultural expectations of infinite resources and unlimited choice.

Description: Tables used for the Reported Deaths of Centenarians and Near-Centenarians in the U.S. Social Security Administration's Death Master File paper.

Description: Abstract: This paper examines the argument whether enterprise risk management (ERM) adds value to the entire firm. Using the A.M. Best property/casualty insurance business database from 2000 to 2009 for 794 US insurance companies we found evidence to support this argument.

Description: A glossary of terms.

Description: A call for essays issued by the SOA Health and Long Term Care Sections on the visions for the future of the U.S. health care system.

Description: This paper employs a static-component projection methodology as a first step in a more complex research agenda focusing on developing detailed population projections in which mortality, disability, and disease are represented as linked phenomena with changes in any one impacting the other two. From Retirement Needs Framework, M-RS00-1.

Description: Expert discussion of two previous papers: Increased Longevity and the Challenge of Determining Qx at Extreme Ages - Part 2 Mortality at Advanced Ages in the U.K. Gallop and MacDonald, and Coping with Longevity - The New German Annuity Valuation Table DAV 2004 R Pasdika and Wolff. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.