Description: Since health care reform has made accountable care organizations a hot topic, an SOA workgroup is addressing relevant questions, including provider risk under various ACO models, limitations of the Medicare model for motivating change in the health care delivery system, strategic priorities, attribution of members, meaurement, and the roles actuaries can play.

Description: Update on Health Section research projects and topics, including health care reform, complexity science, and strategic planning.

Description: Phased retirement and longer work are growing more important. This article suggests a variety of public changes to improve opportunities and options.

Description: Report on meetings sessions in each of 5 tracks for Long Term Care professionals: Actuarial, Compliance, Operations, Policy and Provers, and Group.

Description: An update on the China insurance industry and the issues surrounding the admission of foreign insurance companies

Description: Reviews Elmer R. Benedict's book entitled Protecting Retirement Against Inflation, which present a broad program for equitable sharing of the inflation burden. The kingpin is an income adjustment, utilizing income taxes, designed to restore the purchasing power of the retired, disabled and surviving spouses.

Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: An interview with Jennifer Gillespie, chairperson of SOA Public Policy Strategy Task Force.

Description: Panel discussion on inflation's impact on business procedures, contingency plans, long-term benefit levels, and determination of financial reporting items such as future reserves, surplus levels, operating expenses, and net gains. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Overview of SOA-sponsored seminars held in July 1978 in four cities to discuss current issues in the private sector relating to the new OASDI benefit formulas.