Description: Article on the history of the Long Term Care Discussion Group, a Washington DC-based venue for discussing long-term care and related issues for over 20 years.

Description: The February/March 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The article explores ways that legislative policy options that focus on both trust fund solvency and benefit adequacy may be implemented to bring about Social Security solvency and sustainability.

Description: Comments on Robert North’s paper, a real case study of disclosing MVL in a public employee retirement system.

Description: First part of a 3 part panel discussion about social insurance in Great Britain. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: Argues that the budget for the Social Security program should not be 'unified'with the rest of the federal budget in evaluating the federal deficit.

Description: Overview of Medicare's 1979 financial projections under optimistic, pessimistic, and intermediate assumptions, for the Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance programs.

Description: Recently, the SCAN Foundation, AARP, LeadingAge, and HHS funded economic modeling conducted by Milliman and the Urban Institute around LTC reform elements. The LTC industry has over the years also generated ideas to address the on-coming expansion of LTC needs in the U.S. For this article, we have brought together three individuals who have long involvement with LTC financing to discuss some of the recent ideas and provide some perspectives on their pluses and minuses.

Description: The purpose of this report is to develop information that may be useful to the Pennsylvania legislature in its efforts to regulate the funding of pre-need contracts. What we have done is to develop a theoretical basis for regulation and then to suggest some practical approaches to initial implementation.

Description: A response to the comments on the paper.