Description: This article explores telemedicine's impact on the health care system, health care costs, and actuarial pricing.

Description: No fault auto insurance and health insurance may permit collecting double benefits for auto-related medical claims was true in 1972.

Description: This article describes Health Savings Accounts HSAs and the tax and other aspects of these funds.

Description: Article from The Actuary January 1993 Volume 27, No. 1 highlights solvency measures and what happens if they don't work. Includes discussion on US guaranty association and Canadian CompCorp.

Description: This article outlines and summarizes research from Swiss Re about the prevalence of the Health Protection Gap throughout Asia, with a particular focus on China. Authors Robert Burr and David Zhang share key statistics on the scope of the gap, which is more than 800Bn USD in China alone, and discuss the role that technology and private-public partnership can play in reducing this gap over time. Readers will come away with an understanding of the scale of the problem within the Asia region as well as new ideas on how to solve similar problems within their own region.

Description: In the last 10 to 15 years, new health insurance programs have proliferated in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. The reason for this boom has been, basically, the need for insurance companies to identify and implement new or additional lines of insurance business in order to match or exceed the increased numbers of competitors now working in these markets. This is combined with the stronger reinsurance capacity that these insurance companies had access to, which can be attributed to the need for increased reinsurance protection that arose a number of years ago, when many insurance and reinsurance companies were seeking larger volumes of businesses based on the expected growth potential of the region.

Description: This article exams societal trends that may influence retirement patterns and presented retirement scenarios. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 12

Description: Opioids overdoses have contributed to increases in mortality among white American. This article gives some detail on the speed and the reach of the epidemic.

Description: NAIC Health Update from quarterly meeting. Issue No. 42.

Description: Discussion of developments with regards to addressing major medical care needs since 1959, including the passage of Medicare.