Description: This article discusses the differences between insurance direct marketers and actuaries and the similarities on which they can build.

Description: Article discussing an alternative method to calculate the PBA deterministic reserve called the “Direct Iteration” method.

Description: Chapter 4 review the evolution of the health care system in Canada, and how an aging population will create cost-escalation pressures on the health care system. The chapter does not address issues concerning the efficiency and efficacy of the present health care system. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: This study identifies large categories of conditions that long-term care insurance LTCI carriers previously might have avoided because of a lack of data. This study estimates claims, mortality, and lapse rates for several conditions. Many of the conditions are further analyzed into risk categories, some of which would be insurable at standard rates.

Description: Will the Medicare Modernization Act Jump Start Growth in Employer-Sponsored Long- Term Care Insurance? by Allen J. Schmitz, FSA and Scott A. Weltz, FSA from Long-Term Care Newsletter, April 2004, Issue No. 11.

Description: Recap of National Academy of Social Insurance NASI annual conference “Getting to Universal Health Insurance Coverage”

Description: With the 2017 pricing season nearly complete for commercial health care, and two of the 3R risk mitigation programs in the rear view mirror, what should we expect going forward in the commercial health care markets? This session will focus on coming ACA legislation impacts, market morbidity, consolidation of carriers, strategy, tactics and other concerns.

Description: The paper focuses on value creation for European health insurance companies through the practical application of integrated ERM frameworks.

Description: Panelists discuss the following managed care topics: · Design issues/pros and cons e.g., self-directed health-care model · Provider reimbursement methodologies · Consumer and regulatory issues · Insurance and reinsurance pricing and underwriting issues · Catastrophic claims · Risk-based capital repercussions · Defined contribution health plans From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 61

Description: Employer and payers need to actively seek change in the system of mental health care deliveryoperational, clinical, and financial change. From Financing Chronic Care Monograph, M-HB05-1.