Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss Long Term Care Insurance pricing including the appropriate assumptions for claim costs, mortality, interest, lapse rates and required surplus, plus regulatory issues and the ability to obtain and implement rate increases.

Description: Discusses long-term-care [LTC] product designs, consumer attitudes about LTC, and continuing care retirement communities [CCRCs]. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discusses items being promoted by the administration, other politicians, and others interested in the outcome of health care reform. Included is the possible effect on private LTC insurers, LTC taxation, and reporting requirements. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting explains the federal group long term care program and addresses the effect it has had on group plan designs, new entrants into the market, and sales of individual long term care insurance.

Description: This session discussion is about long-term health care funding. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This session discussion is about the current offerings to employer groups, policy and pricing considerations and continuing care retirement communities [CCRCs]. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss issues involved in Group Long Term Care Plans, including plan upgrades, experience rating, and transfers of business between carriers.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 107PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. Research results from the National Long-Term Care Survey and other surveys of the general elderly population indicate that age-specific morbidity [functional disability] prevalence rates have dropped significantly since 1982. The panelists quantify the nature of the temporal trends in disease morbidity and functional disability, noting that what is really new in this session is looking at the joint impact of changes in disability and mortality. They illustrate the potential impact of these temporal trends on long-term care insurance LTCI pricing and valuation, and provide some guidance as to how this material can be used by LTCI actuaries. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.

Description: This session is about supplemental and specialty health products in Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia. It also includes a discussion on health care reform for individual health and long-term care products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: Panelists discuss issues arising from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.