Description: Letters to the editor of In The Public Interest discussing social insurance articles from the previous issue.

Description: Panelists present the positions being staked out by the political parties, the likelihood of passage of any of the proposed legislation, and the potential impacts on the health care market of the various proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 131PD.

Description: US pharmacy prices have entered a new era of growth driven by Specialty medications. A bevy of state and national regulations have been proposed to address pharmacy pricing, industry structure and transparency.Health actuaries will learn about US pharmacy pricing structure and how proposed legislation could affect future costs. Actuaries that have responsibility for pharmacy rate/budget setting, RFPs or trend projection will benefit from a deeper understanding of the US pharmacy market landscape and gain an international perspective.

Description: This session will review the challenges the Affordable Care Act has faced since its enactment in 2010 and will look forward to where it’s headed in the future. Panelists will discuss current ACA legislative and regulatory activities as well as ongoing ACA litigation.

Description: Feature article discussing the findings of a recent CDC report and offering a challenge to actuaries in response to those findings.

Description: Discussion of state medicaid expansion due to provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Description: Discusses Notice 2011-02 as it addresses most, but not all, of the outstanding questions about health-care-insurance entities to which the $500,000 compensation rule applies.

Description: Discussion of various alternatives for financing health care.: It discussed providers,the uninsured employers of uninsured workers, employers through taxes , assessment on health insurance and general revenues.

Description: A summary of the 14th Monograph “Health Risk Assessment and Health Risk Adjustment: Current Initiatives” published by The American Academy of Actuaries.'The monograph examines the approaches of two states, New York and California, in implementing or considering risk adjustment provisions in recent legislative reforms.'

Description: This article presents the concept of comprehensive care management as a fundamentally different way to reform health care and reduce costs. There are 3 components - demand management, utilization management and disease management.