Description: This paper explores how change in societal forces can affect the systems for providing security including private pensions, social security, life insurance and health insurance. The societal forces examined are changes in family, role of women, inflation and the age composition of population. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on long-term projections of health insurance, the uses of the projections, the type of model to use and model considerations for the projections.

Description: Presented at September 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Discusses analyzing and projecting financial risk in group health plans.

Description: This discussion from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the movement to small group health plans, group insurance underwriting, the plan design of non-traditional benefit programs such as cafeteria plans, HMO's and PPO's and new financial processes. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the issues in the individual medical insurance market - escalating costs, utilization rates and anti-select lapsation, the potential solutions and the challenges facing the actuary.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers cost containment in health care costs, cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting, the use of deductibles or co-payments, different delivery systems and utilization.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses current financial reporting topics related to both group and individual health insurance, including: Standards of practice for health actuaries, Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 DEFRA, Qualifications for health certification, Internal management reporting needs, New state reporting requirements.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session is about actuarial implications of individual choice, antiselection problems for medical coverages, plan design considerations, flexible benefits program experience, impact of alternative delivery systems on insured plan.

Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.