Description: This session discusses Medicare Supplement Insurance including claim cost experience and trend, Medicare Select issues and challenges, and meeting rate increase/profitability objectives. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 7

Description: Panelists discuss emerging valuation-actuary-related issues, including: [1] for long-term-care insurance [LTCI], reserves, risk-based capital [RBC], and new experience forms, [2] for Medicare Part D, several potential future changes, and [3] for health insurance in general, the new Statement of Standard Accounting Practice 85 [SSAP 85] and existing SSAP 84, and current activities of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] regarding a definition of 'insurance.' Session 27PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Research report sponsored by SOA to model and compare projected costs of different proposals for a Medicare prescription drug coverage plan. 3 types of costs are studied: net benefit cost estimates per member per month, continuance table data, and projected annual costs to the government over 10 years for two selected plan designs.

Description: Essay discussing cost, quality and access of healthcare and then describes the need for rationing.

Description: Summary of a talk by Robert J. Myers given at a recent meeting of the Baltimore Actuaries Club on revising the standard premium rate for Supplementary Medical Insurance.

Description: In this article, Dr. Ted LeBoy, Assistant Medical Director of Continental Assurance Co., commented on some changes that had been observed during the first eight months of Medicare's existence. These included changes in the average number of hospital days and physician charges.

Description: This session on Medicare+Choice [M+C] includes an update on risk adjustment methodology, legislative developments that are impacting the M+C program and measures taken by health-care companies to adapt to those changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 82pd.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing Social Security Earnings Base and Payroll Tax Rates, Social Security Wage Index and Maximum PIA, other Social Security program data, Medicare data, Railroad Retirement Earnings Base and Payroll Tax Rates, and the number of recipients and average monthly OASDI benefits.

Description: Brief discussion of highlights of past Living to 100 Research Symposia, urging readers to attend 2023 symposium

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto discusses the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 - DEFRA, FASB proposals and the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 - REA. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A in Toronto