Description: A call for essays issued by the SOA Health and Long Term Care Sections on the visions for the future of the U.S. health care system.

Description: The SOA’s research objective is to provide guidance to state exchange officials and administrators, federal officials and administrators, and actuaries assisting states and health plans. The goal of the project is to estimate the morbidity and/or cost for newly insured individuals in the individual market (and to some degree, the small group exchange) relative to the morbidity and/or cost for the current commercially insured population. This analysis will primarily focus on the individual, non-group market. In order to plan for the impact that these currently uninsured individuals will have on the health insurance markets, it will be important to understand their costs relative to the costs for people already enrolled, for whom many health insurers have experience and data.

Description: This session discussion will discuss the nation's care system and the changes the industry must face to ensure its long-term financial strength. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This article discusses the potential characteristics of health care reform and the associated impact on small insurance companies.

Description: This presentation uses a dataset provided by a private insurance company which contained demographic, cost, and diagnostic data which allows the determination of which factors drove costs up and how these factors will affect the total cost for future years.

Description: An overview of the issues behind reimbursing providers on a bundled or packaged basis. The article presents the potential advantages offered by the proponents as well as the criticisms and obstacles to implementing this type of payment system.

Description: This is a 1992 panel discussion about health care reform. Topics discussed include the political environment on health care reform, how and why this environment has changed, the policy options for health care reform, how the political parties view these options, and the prospects for reform in the reasonably near future. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: An overview of health care history and privatization developments in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil.

Description: An article that talks about discussions between administration policy makers and American Academy of Actuaries representatives.

Description: This article explores what American medicine might look like in the year 2000. The author asserts this will depend on the tradeoffs made between quality and availability on the one hand, and cost on the other hand.