Description: Are health insurance benefits contributing to the inflation in medical costs? What types of improvements in policy benefits and policy provisions would have a beneficial effect? how practical are reform proposals From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970 Vol. 22 Pt. 2 No. 62 AB

Description: This is a discussion on health insurance and health care and the changes occurring in patterns of medical care.

Description: This paper discusses interest rate generators which vary by intended purpose. The primary focus is on fairly elementary generators for studying C-3 risk, with major emphasis on parametric, mean reversionary generators.

Description: This discussion presents a few comments on the legislative situation with regard to health care for the aged in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 37.

Description: This paper presents population hospital utilization data concerning the proportion of total hospital days that is due to injury and the proportion of total hospital days that is spent in intensive care units for use in obtaining reserve factors. The paper also presents continuation data for hospitalizations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This is a panel discussion about social insurance programs for health care in Canada and the United States and new developments in benefits and costs of the programs.

Description: It is well accepted that, for ages 30 and above, human mortality rates increase with age, yet no established graduation method makes direct use of this knowledge. Such a method is offered in this paper.

Description: This paper will have as the primary purpose a discussion of economic security provisions in the USSR, both those on a compulsory governmental basis and those available to the individual on a voluntary basis. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on the marketing trends of smaller companies, mass marketing and direct marketing. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 2, No. 60.

Description: The primary purpose of this paper is to set forth one method of evaluating vested pension costs and to suggest a simple way for the actuary to make provision in his pension cost calculations for specific vesting schedules. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18, Pt. 1, No. 52.