Description: Essays show a new system that will encompass minor changes to the current health insurance system, it will allow consumers to sign up for Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan and be administered like Medicare but with more benefits and emphasis on preventive care.

Description: Full version of Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2002, Issue No. 7.

Description: Full version of Long-Term Care Newsletter, September 2005, Issue No. 15.

Description: Our panelists discuss mechanisms to measure affordability, reducing costs through product design and other responses by plans, employers & providers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 82

Description: This session will recap the history of the involvement of the actuarial profession in the debates on health care reform. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the techniques for understanding and analyzing trends in medical care, including: utilization and cost components, analysis of cyclical behavior, use of econometric models, and aggregate trend vs. employer-specific needs.

Description: Full version of Long-Term Care, September 1999, Issue No. 1.

Description: This is the fourth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 24 insurers that agreed to provide information to further the knowledge of long–term care insurance. Those insurers are listed in Appendix A of the report.

Description: This report compares health care utilization and expenditures between individuals with Crohn’s disease who had used infliximab and those who had not. Claims data from the 1999-2003 Thomson Reuters MarketScan commercial claims and encounters databases and inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drug claims data of individuals older than 18 years of age with a diagnosis of Crohn’s were included.

Description: This 1981 session dealt with individual accident and health rate regulation issues. Topics included the history of regulations and their primary purpose or need. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.