Description: This is a panel discussion session on corporate decision making for an individual health line of business including how companies decide which product lines to market, what factors improve the profitability prospects for a product line, why some companies feel income protection coverages are viable while medical expense coverages are not while other companies concentrate on the medical expense market only, and why life companies decide to enter the health insurance market. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion about individual health rate filings asks the following seven questions and answers each pro and con: 1. Should individual accident and health be guaranteed renewable? 2. Should there be rate increase caps? 3. Should duration rating be permitted? 4. Should optional pre-filing be permitted? 5. Should loss ratios be increased? 6. Should the pending small-group regulation laws apply to the individual policy area? 7. Should the loss ratio be the only determinant in the approval of a rate change? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers trends in health group products and experience, including managed care, PPO's, HMO's, POS's and PHO's. It also covers new developments in group long term disability products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the financial implications of managed care for health insurance profitability. Factors that affect profitability for managed care companies and health insurance companies are discussed.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents the results of risk adjuster research in health care assessment and discusses the potential use of risk adjusters in health care reform efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: At this presentation from Session 6PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists discuss the role of the valuation actuary in health insurance. The focus of the session is scenario testing in health insurance and how this is a tool in assessing the risks of the company. Statutory minimums and statements of opinion are discussed. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: Examines the question of whether health-care costs, or health insurance costs, are in crisis.

Description: Social Insurance & Public Finance Section council members provide a recap of sessions from the 2021 SOA Health Meeting, with a focus on sessions covering Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, and public policy. The authors include a description of SIPF Section-sponsored sections, including a session on the ACA and a session on CMS's Direct Contracting Model.

Description: This is Part 2 of 2 on changes affecting Medigap insurers. It focuses on marketing and regulatory differences between Medigap and Medicare Advantage that affect the competitiveness of Medigap plans.

Description: This is a panel discussion about the future of health care and health care insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 58