Description: Summary of two SOA/CIA joint Canadian research projects: A REVIEW OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND RETIREMENT SYSTEM RESEARCH.

Description: A list of acronyms for the names of the agencies, unions, and other organizations and entities involved in the French social insurance, health policy, and long-term care environment.

Description: A consideration of the issues involved in adding long-term care provisions to the social security system in France, and how the conditions differ from those in the U.S.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper by Samuel Eckler titled, 'State Hospital Insurance in Canada'. The comments refer to the cost of providing the public healthcare and the level of cost sharing.

Description: Article focusing on the current and future state of health insurance in the U.S.

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

Description: State hospital insurance has been operating in two Canadian provinces - British Columbia and Saskatchewan - for a number of years. This study of the provisions and experience of these two provincial plans is intended to shed some light on the question of publicly funded health insurance.

Description: On May 16th, the Social Security Boards of Trustees sent to the Congress the three annual reports OASDI, HI, and SMI. These reports present cost projections similar to those provided to the Congress last year at the time of enactment of the 1977 Amendments.

Description: Member benefit newsletter for the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section of the SOA.

Description: In the United States today, there is much talk about the effect of the “baby boomer” generation ranging from the effect on our Social Security system, the increased market for healthcare products, as well as the effect that their withdrawals will have on the stock market. Yet overseas, there is a revolutionary change taking place that is much more fundamental than simply an aging population. As this article is being published, there are numerous countries that are seeing the first generation of their population retire with an explicitly described and funded social security benefit for each of those individuals.