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

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: Profile of the Health Section.

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: The Health Section chairperson discusses the past year's activity, especially the Visions for the Future of the U.S. Health Care System essay contest, and an update on the Untapped Opportunities for Actuaries in Health initiative.

Description: An economics professor and a health care consumer advocate weigh in on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including implementation issues, directions for the future and what role actuaries shoudl take.

Description: Since health care reform has made accountable care organizations a hot topic, an SOA workgroup is addressing relevant questions, including provider risk under various ACO models, limitations of the Medicare model for motivating change in the health care delivery system, strategic priorities, attribution of members, meaurement, and the roles actuaries can play.

Description: Update on Health Section research projects and topics, including health care reform, complexity science, and strategic planning.