Description: In order to encourage health insurance issuers to offer health insurance coverage on the Exchange and on the individual and small group markets, while ameliorating the potential impact on any particular health insurance issuer of providing coverage without pricing for pre-existing conditions or the gender of the insured, the Affordable Care Act includes three risk-sharing programs: the Transitional Reinsurance program, the Risk Corridor program and the Risk Adjustment program (collectively referred to as the “3Rs”). The financial and tax reporting of each health insurance issuer is affected by the implementation of these risk-sharing programs because each health insurance issuer is required to pay for the programs’ costs, and some issuers are or will be eligible for benefits under them.

Description: This session discusses the impact of rising costs and increased litigation on managed care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 133

Description: Feature article discussing the impact of health care reform on the direct insurance market and the reinsurance market.

Description: The paper addresses the issue of cost-sharing reductions under the Affordable Care Act.

Description: This session discussed Managing The Delivery Of Health Care To Control Medical Costs. Includes organizational & marketing strategies, rate strategies, selection issues, plan design, and regulation. Record of Society of Actuaries 1983 Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: Recap of content contained in the October 2013 issue of the Health Watch newsletter.

Description: In this panel discussion from a 1963 SOA meeting, operations under the Keogh Act were explored. The act provides a method under which funds deposited in qualified retirement plans can grow and appreciate income-tax free and under which taxable income can be deferred. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2.

Description: This paper presents the results of an investigation of the remarriage experience of a sizable group of Canadian widows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This session discussion presents future needs for services and financing arrangements for aging baby boomers, scenarios of the Long-Term Care LTC situation in the year 2010, and the gap between future needs for LTC and current methods of providing it. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: The US healthcare system before and after Obamacare – better or worse and what's next?