Description: CLASS Act and ACA

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: Taxes and Fees Introduced by the ACA

Description: A compilation of feedback from actuaries in the Health Section of the affects of the ACA.

Description: Describes actuarial approaches used to quantify the benefit to employers of implementing financial wellness programs for their employees.

Description: Author provides rationale for his disagreement with the latest draft proposal of reserve standards for health insurance that is being considered by the NAIC for adoption.

Description: This session discusses HMOs: do they manage health better, do provider financial incentives reduce quality, do HMOs profit from shadow pricing, and do they attract better risk. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Wrap-up of publication and thank-yous.

Description: This 1981 session focused on health insurance coverages. Questions included: 1. What are problem areas that have given rise to recent legislative and regulatory activity? 2. What new or different sales practices are being utilized to alleviated consumerist and regulator concerns? 3. How have legislative restrictions on product design and sales practices affected pricing adequacy, morbidity experience and the long-range availability of such coverages? 4. What can actuaries do to educate the public and regulators about cost projections and premium adequacy? 5. Is it ethical to market a product with a low benefit payoff, high expense ratio? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: Participants discuss the current issues of work site health product portfolio designs, including various supplemental health products for large & small employers and individuals. Topics include dental and various voluntary products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 27