Description: The American Academy of Actuaries task force charged with developing a risk-base capital formula for health insurers submitted its preliminary report to the NAIC Health Organizations Risk-Based Capital Working Group.

Description: This article discusses Medical Savings Accounts MSA as proposed in federal legislation and the problems that actuaries will face in predicting their use.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about research papers for FSA credit, specifically mentions The Application of Fuzzy Sets to Group Health Underwriting

Description: The editorial shares observations and lessons learned from the process of implementing the Affordable Care Act.

Description: Industry briefings and SOA news

Description: The article explores how deeply the Affordable Care Act reduced the Medicare Advantage benchmark payment rates and quantifies how much of that reduction Medicare Advantage Organizations earned back through quality bonuses.

Description: This article discusses health care reform in Kentucky. In 1994, Kentucky implemented health care reform measures inspired by the unsuccessful attempt at national health care reform in the Health Security Act of 1993. The measures adopted in Kentucky are described by the author as 'a textbook case of how not to engage in health care reform.' From: The Actuary, April 2000 – volume 34 - Issue 4.

Description: Discusses the rapidly growing AIDS epidemic and its impact on traditional underwriting principles for life insurance and health insurance.

Description: This article discusses of the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program. Specifically addressed were the flexible features, the political environment and changes being considered.

Description: Examines the trends affecting the distribution system for the industry's products, and the regulatory and tax environment in which life companies operate. Also looks briefly at the state of competition in the industry.