Description: The October/November 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This article describes the new state of Washington regulation governing replacements noting problems with the formula used and offering improvements.

Description: An over view of recent revisions to Social Security, and their implications to the private sector of the insurance industry.

Description: Reviews the book, HMOs and the Politics of Health System Reform, by Joseph Falkson which discusses HMOs' legislative and regulatory structuring.

Description: Views of several actuarial participants in this lawsuit, regarding new buyer disclosure requirements, were printed in our May Issue. Mr. Murphy spoke for the plaintiffs, whose strongest objection to the disputed Wisconsin Regulation was its omission of the Equivalent Level Annual Dividend from the preliminary policy summary.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 1. This article discusses the impact of a change in procedure in the financing of the US Military Retirement System. The change requires amortizing the past service liability. The impact will depend upon whether the amortization is achieved by increasing current taxes and decreasing the current deficit, or by merely increasing the national debt and leaving the current deficit unchanged. The author asserts that the new financing method will not weaken the financial condition of the military retirement system, and that it has the potential to strengthen its financial condition if the funding of the past service liability is handled appropriately.

Description: The author shares the story of his actuarial career and provides insight into the development of retirement today and the past and future of the pension actuary.

Description: This article focuses on retirement decisions, phased retirement and related policy issues, calling for actuaries to take on leadership roles in retirement public discussion.

Description: An article in which Robert Laszewski, a Washington health policy strategist, tells us, actuarial science has never been more important to our country.

Description: This article discusses the new Kassebaum-Kennedy bill a.k.a. HIPPA and looks at future of individual health insurance plans, which will be determined at the state level.