Description: A proposal to address provider payment issues by gradually moving to accountable care organizations. Capitations would be risk-adjusted, non-capitated costs would be covered by hospitalization fund and stoploss, incentives for quality & effective preventive care would be tied to the amount remaining in the fund, and government involvement would be through incentives rather than mandate.

Description: Gostin argues that there is indeed a crisis in American health care.

Description: Drivers of Health Care Affordability. Issue No. 45.

Description: Health Care in Ireland public care, private insurance, risk adjustment Issue No. 39.

Description: Discussion regarding who's to blame for cost increase, Government's role to ensure coverage and keep costs down, steps to control costs, plan design changes. Issue No. 47.

Description: In this article, the authors explore how the recession has impacted new member enrollment in the various state health care programs and the resulting impact on trend.

Description: An excerpt from a presentation at the 2014 Living to 100 Symposium, this article describes an open-source model for use by actuaries attempting to estimate future health benefit costs, discusses its strengths and limitations, and projects that spending for those age over 65 will take more than $13 trillion by 2055, about 50 percent of total medical expenditures.

Description: Current Status of managing costs & increasing costs, Future Direction of Consumerism, technology and defined contribution health plans. Issue No. 39.

Description: Discussion of steps that can be taken to control costs and future plan design changes. Part 2 of a 2 part series. Issue No. 48.

Description: An article in the September 2008 issue of Health Watch in which the author passes along some thoughts to those who may be participating in the health care debate this time around.