Description: This paper explores the legislation of New York 65, the intent of which was to offer health benefits to persons age 65 and over without health examination or other evidence of insurability. From TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, 1962 VOL. 14, PT. 1 NO. 40.

Description: This section features various book reviews: 'How to Cope with the Developing Financial Crisis' by Bladen, 'Policymaking for Social Security' by Derthick, '1979 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds' by US Congress, 'Integration of Plans with Social Security and Funding' by Grubbs, 'Pension and Profit Sharing Plans - a Basic Guide' by Mamorsky, 'Joint Trust Pension Plans' by McGinn, 'Financing the Civil Service Retirement Systems...' by McGill, 'Pension Task Force Report on Public Employee Retirement Systems' by Committee on Education and Labor. Brief descriptions of additional readings are also included.

Description: This study produces annual claim costs for Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance and Group Employee & Dependents Hospital & Surgical Expense Insurance and exhibits the trend in these claims costs. This report is based on a study by the Committee on Group Accident and Sickness Experience designed to satisfy that need to update previous studies due to the shift in emphasis by plan of benefit, the increase in level of hospital expenses and the change in pattern of these expenses. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: 1956 Transactions of the SOA, Volume 8. This section contains book reviews and summaries of recent publications.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizations of recent publications: 'Regulation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans' by Eilers, 'Changes in Family Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance' by Anderson, Collette, and Feldman, 'Risk Management' by Snider, 'Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service' by Public Health Service. Digests are also included.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications: 'Fundamentals of Private Pensions, 2d Edition' by McGill, 'Pension Plans under Collective Bargaining...' by American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 'New Trends in Pensions' by Pilch and Wood, 'Valuation of Securities Holdings of Life Insurance Companies' by Fraine, 'Report of the Commission on the Cost of Medical Care, Volumes I-IV' by American Medical Association, 'Health Progress in the US, 1900-1960' by Lerner and Anderson. Also includes some digests.

Description: There is some reason to believe that the trend of life companies entering the A & S business will continue. Both the public and the government are becoming increasingly aware of the need and desirability for the widest possible coverage against the loss of income because of disability and against the cost of medical care. This should lead to an expansion of the market for A & S insurance which should attract still other companies to the field in the future. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: Description of the consulting segment of the actuarial profession as it now exists in Canada and the United States, the environment in which it has developed, and some of the unresolved problems and possible future developments. Followed by discussion papers submitted by 2 authors

Description: This paper describes risk-factor-dependent multiple decrements and actuarial cost functions as a general compartment model, a discrete time and discrete state stochastic model of morbidity and mortality processes. For large numbers of risk factors, the model is extended to its natural continuous time and state form. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.

Description: This paper summarizes the legislative history in 1966 and 1967 of the amendments to Social Security, including Medicare and Medicaid, that were enacted and of the significant Unemployment Insurance legislation that was almost enacted. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 57.