Description: This session is about the Health insurance has become an important issue in this year's presidential election campaign. What effect will this have on the likelihood of major health-care reform, on public expectations about rights to health care, about perceptions of health insurers, etc? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: This presentation included discussions on AAA Medicare Reform Task Force, the 2000 Medicare Technical Advisory Panel's review of HCFA's Medicare projections, and prescription drug coverage. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 7

Description: This 1978 session on Social Security Funding included discussion on 1. Major Amendments, 2. Financing condition of Social Security after amendments, 3. Benefit levels, and 4. Possible future legislation.

Description: This 1978 discussion session focuses on Social Security after the 1977 amendments. Included are the following topics: 1. The 1977 major amendments, 2. The financial condition of Social Security after the amendments, 3. Social Security benefit levels, and 4. Possible future Social Security legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA Maui II Spring Meeting discuss how well the U.S. and Candian social security systems have met the criteria for an equitable system. An Australian actuary discusses his paper 'The Development of Some Criteria for Equity and National Retirement Income Systems.'

Description: This presentation from Session 99PD of the SOA 1999 Seattle Spring Meeting is about the data sources and advice used by the Health Care Financing Administration in choosing the assumptions used for projecting Medicare costs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting examines the Social Security Amendments of 1983 including benefits vs. taxes over a worker's lifetime, implications of Social Security changes for employee benefit plans and compensation arrangements. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This document is a meeting session summary. The meeting occurred at the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The session compared and contrasted educational and experience requirements for actuaries and economists, costs of long range social insurance programs, costs of short range programs, economic analysis of the effects of social insurance programs and cooperation between the two professions to analyze social insurance programs.

Description: A professor from England gives his views on the United States Social Security System, including a comparison to other systems.

Description: The Social Security amendments of 1977 are considered to be the most significant Social Security legislation since the 1972 amendments and possibly those of 1950. This 1978 presentation is a discussion the 1977 Social Security amendments including: 1. A description of the major amendments, 2. The financial condition of Social Security after the amendments, and 3. Possible future Social Security legislation.