Description: This article describes the SOA's Risk Adjustment Research project, in the context of health care reform, and the preliminary data analysis that has been completed by the Research Task Force.

Description: Discussion of recent developments in the taxation of noncoordinated benefits such as fixed indemnity, hospital indemnity, and specified disease insurance policies. Developments include a recent Chief Counsel Advice Memorandum and proposed triagency rulemaking that would impact non coordinated benefits.

Description: This article provides a brief summary of the health insurance bill introduced in the New York legislature on February 22, 1967 which proposes mandatory heath insurance.

Description: A discussion of the positive and negative impact of the CLASS Act on the long term care insurance industry.

Description: This article explores what American medicine might look like in the year 2000. The author asserts this will depend on the tradeoffs made between quality and availability on the one hand, and cost on the other hand.

Description: An overview of health care history and privatization developments in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil.

Description: This article provides the perspective of the Health Section's chairperson on Section activities, educational programs and the US healthcare environment.

Description: Discussion of some of the debated aspects of the new health care law from an actuarial principles perspective.

Description: Panelists discuss key aspects of recent and pending laws and the cost and design implications on group health plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This is a 1992 panel discussion about health care reform. Topics discussed include the political environment on health care reform, how and why this environment has changed, the policy options for health care reform, how the political parties view these options, and the prospects for reform in the reasonably near future. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.