Description: This session discussed about expected trends in medical care costs, changes in Medicare reimbursement practices and their short- and long-term effects, the emerging responsibility for providing long-term care, rise of managed health care, new and old participants, selection issues, multiple options, and small group market.

Description: An analysis of health insurance cost and benefit trends using January 1, 2011 data from state employee medical plan renewals.

Description: This session is about rationing health care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Research report sponsored by SOA to model and compare projected costs of different proposals for a Medicare prescription drug coverage plan. 3 types of costs are studied: net benefit cost estimates per member per month, continuance table data, and projected annual costs to the government over 10 years for two selected plan designs.

Description: Article Health Insurance in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups.

Description: Panel session discussion of how universal access, quality of care, and controlling health care costs are being addressed in Latin American countries.

Description: Discussion of possible national health care reform measures, including coverage for the unemployed, employer-mandated plans, publicly funded and administrated plans. Also an overview of recently enacted legislation at both the state and federal level, and measures taken by provider organizations, for controlling costs.. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York.

Description: A comment letter to policymakers produced jointly by the SOA and AAA presents findings from their actuarial analysis of the proposed CLASS Act. The analysis indicates that the proposed structure and funding approaches will be unsustainable, and will cover only a very small proportion of the intended population. The opt-out and guaranteed issue provisions of the plan pose a risk that soon the program will either need increased premiums and/or significant reductions.

Description: Presents ideas and discussion for improving Medicare so it may be financially sustainable