Description: A perspective of the impact on the insurance industry after the first decade of AIDS in the US.

Description: This article chroncles the law suit that Blue Cross of Minnesota filed against all of the large tobacco companies for fraud and the extra cost incurred by all Blue Cross members. The case was settled for $469 million.

Description: This article is a review of Howard E. Winklevoss and Alwyn V. Powell's Continuing Care Retirement Communities: An Empirical, Financial and Legal Analysis. The book discusses the actuarial aspects of a CCRC, especially the establishment of fee structures.

Description: This is a book review of 'The Rising Cost of Hospital Care' by Martin S. Feldstein, Ph.D. In general, the book proceeds from an analysis of how and how much hospital costs have risen to why they have risen.

Description: This is a review of the publication entitled 'Medicare: Health Insurance for the Aged, 1969: Geographic Indices of Reimbursement by State and County.' It is of value to health actuaries because it contains information as to the variation in health insurance claim costs by geographical areas within the United States.

Description: This article discusses fringe benefits for the retired from a 1967 meeting of the Canadian Pension Conference.

Description: Early description of a Medicare data source showing geographic differences by county and state.

Description: Letters to the editor about the feature article “The Dementia Epidemic: Are We Ready?” that ran in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of The Actuary.

Description: This article is about pet insurance. In the past two years, the major U.S. pet insurer has doubled the number of policies in force to 75,000, while many thousands of other cats and dogs are insured by regional HMOs formed by veterinarians.

Description: This article is about our dependence on prescription drugs, their cost and the desire for insurance coverage of drugs.