Description: This article is about the very rapid pace of Health care reform on both the national and state level. The challenge is to ensure that viable financing vehicles are developed for cost effective health care delivery.

Description: Article is about community rating and risk adjustment including possible disadvantages for healthy experience-rated or self-insured groups.

Description: Book Review: Within the System: My Half Century in Social Security by Robert Myers . 'This splendid book' tells of Mr. Myers remarkable public service career and appraises the influence of many American politicians.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 27, Number 3 - March 1993

Description: David Garrick Halmstad died in February of this year at the age of thirty-nine. The loss of one who had contributed so much to our profession in his brief span and whose promise for the future was even greater has moved a number of David's friends to attempt to extend the significance of his life beyond its untimely end. It is proposed to accomplish this by the annual award of a prize bearing his name as a memorial.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 11, Number 3 - March 1977

Description: This article is a summary and analysis of the 1977 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. The author notes that an excellent introduction to these reports may be obtained by reading the Commentary Prepared to Assist in the Reading and Interpretation of the Reports, prepared by A. Haeworth Robertson, Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration. Note: A more extensive review of the Reports will appear in the Transactions.

Description: Discusses speech by Professor Chastain of Drake University on recruiting and what attracts recent graduates to particular jobs.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 3, Number 5 - May 1969

Description: Book review of The Mathematical Sciences, A Collection of 22 Essays, by the National Research Council's Committee on Support of Research in the Mathematical Sciences.