Description: This 1978 discussion session focuses on Social Security after the 1977 amendments. Included are the following topics: 1. The 1977 major amendments, 2. The financial condition of Social Security after the amendments, 3. Social Security benefit levels, and 4. Possible future Social Security legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 3.

Description: This session discuses the Canadian health-care system including hospital perspective, general Medicare concerns, budget constraints, increasing costs, and private insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about 1. Proposals to reorient Social Security to encourage later retirement, 2. The impact of later retirement on employers, employees, pension programs and insurers, 3. The desirability, practicality and equity of requiring later retirement, 4. The problems of funding disability-related early retirement, and 5. Alternative approaches to bringing the long-range benefits and revenues of Social Security into equilibrium.

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

Description: This document is a meeting session summary. The meeting occurred at the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The session compared and contrasted educational and experience requirements for actuaries and economists, costs of long range social insurance programs, costs of short range programs, economic analysis of the effects of social insurance programs and cooperation between the two professions to analyze social insurance programs.

Description: A professor from England gives his views on the United States Social Security System, including a comparison to other systems.

Description: The Social Security amendments of 1977 are considered to be the most significant Social Security legislation since the 1972 amendments and possibly those of 1950. This 1978 presentation is a discussion the 1977 Social Security amendments including: 1. A description of the major amendments, 2. The financial condition of Social Security after the amendments, and 3. Possible future Social Security legislation.

Description: This presentation from Session 99PD of the SOA 1999 Seattle Spring Meeting is about the data sources and advice used by the Health Care Financing Administration in choosing the assumptions used for projecting Medicare costs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. These are reference charts for The 'Access to Health Coverage' session which illustrate the US, insured and uninsured health care economy.

Description: Panelists discuss current implications of the MMA on Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement plans, and introduce the new Part D prescription drug benefit. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 107