Description: Panelists discuss key public policy issues relating to access, coverage, and financing of health care, as well as current health care reform proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 47

Description: Panelists discuss various legislative activities at the federal and state levels that affect health organizations doing business in the commercial market including: patient protection, uninsured, coverage mandates, genetic testing and mental health parity. Also included are case studies of New Jersey and New York's approach to coverage for the uninsured. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 80

Description: This session is about supplemental and specialty health products in Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia. It also includes a discussion on health care reform for individual health and long-term care products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This session discusses the Academy's efforts to address health reform, the latest HIAA activities in the health care debate, and industry implications for proposed legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Addresses election year issues affecting the U.S. health care financing system. What visions do the leading presidential contenders have regarding health care in the U.S.? What are the common factors and unique features of each proposal?

Description: A discussion by several experts of reform activity at the state level will be included. What can be learned from reforms to date? What is likely to happen in the near term? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This session will recap the history of the involvement of the actuarial profession in the debates on health care reform. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This presentation from Session 78PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting discusses state health-care reform over the past decade and offers insights as to what has worked, what hasn't, and what has been a total disaster. The panelists further discuss the states' responses to reforms that simply have not worked and the industry's response to this challenging environment. Finally, they share their ideas of the direction they expect to see state-level reforms to take. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session making health care more affordable through health care reform, changes to tax policy, and managed care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This presentation included discussions on AAA Medicare Reform Task Force, the 2000 Medicare Technical Advisory Panel's review of HCFA's Medicare projections, and prescription drug coverage. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 7