Description: This session is about President Clinton's health care reform proposal. Topics discussed include: federal debate & the actuarial role, cost estimates, and actuarial issues contained in the proposal. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4A.

Description: Discusses reserve valuation for long-term-care insurance [LTCI]. Includes the NAIC model law, federal tax issues, Valuation Actuary standards, cash-flow testing, and how a current company has gone about setting up its active and claim reserves. Session 4 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. The panel presents the status of recent legislative proposals and current election debates, and then focuses more attention on the potential longer-term directions for the health-care system.

Description: This session discusses how managed care affects the cost and pricing of health care. Included is a discussion of inadequate development and use of practice standards practicing differently for patients covered by different insurers and the malpractice crisis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 59

Description: Panelists discuss the various styles of underwriting being used in both the individual and the group long-term-care markets. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discusses managing ambulatory care [i.e. outpatient], physician visit frequency, multiple testing, defensive medicine and how physicians function in a manged care environment.

Description: This session discussion is about regulatory developments, benefit design, funding, vesting, accrual issues, employer perspectives, and public policy implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about who is the health care manager, how is health care management evaluated, ethical considerations, malpractice liability and data systems support. Inlcudes a discussion on gatekeepers, provider contracting, utilization management, benefit design, DRG creep, long-term care, From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss the current trend environment and estimating future trend. From the Record of the SOA, Vol. 29, No. 2, Session 52

Description: Discusses components of health-care inflation and their impact on health-insurance products. These components include: utilization trends, consumer price index [CPI] changes, regional variation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.