Description: This article outlines what the author learned from the Sixth Annual Quality Colloquium at Harvard. From Health Watch, January 2008, Issue No. 57.

Description: This article incorporates the NAIC long-term care insurance model regulation to discuss the appropriateness of rate increases by monitoring emerging experience to manage the risk. This includes experience analysis issues, maximum rate increase calculations, business considerations and valuation issues. From Long-Term Care, December 2003, Issue 10

Description: A dicussion of the Rate Classification Actuarial Standard of Practice, ASOP #12: its purpose, its scope, guidance, and examples.

Description: Pitfalls with long-term care experience studies and tips for dealing with them.

Description: By rationing health care resources, managed care organizations have raised ethical and legal issues not commonly found under previous financing structures. This session 95PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses these issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Article from the Pension Section News, June 2000, on the simple logic of health care inflation. This article is reprinted with permission and ran in the April 2000 issue of Health Section News.

Description: This web page describes a report of recent experience for long term care business in the U.S. utilizing data gathered by the SOA from 22 long term care carriers in the industry, representing approximately 75 percent of the lives inforce.

Description: Ian Duncan argues that there is no crisis in American health care.

Description: Discusses use of credibility theory with respect to LTCi. Considers the various credibility methods and points to resources for more in-depth investigation.

Description: In April, 2009, the Chinese government launched the most comprehensive Health Care System Reform ever. The goal: to establish and improve the basic health care system covering most urban and rural residents, and to provide the people with safe, effective, convenient and affordable health care. There is no doubt that this 'Made in China' health care reform will become the world’s most extensive health care system reform because it will inevitably affect many players in the game such as the local governments who currently administrate the program, the medical professionals who provide the care, the pharmaceutical manufacturers who provide the medicines, and the very large population who participate in the program, etc. This article summarizes the highlights of China's health care reform program.