Description: The moderator will review senior health products: Medicare supplement, Medicare risk, hospital indemnity policy HIP, cancer, accidental death AD, and employer continuance. Discussion will include product design, pricing, administration, regulation, and marketing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Teaching session on the working Medicare contracts: background on the origin of Medicare risk contracts, feasibility of an HMO or competitive medical plan entering the Medicare risk market, and outline of the HCFA adjusted community rate filing process.

Description: A discussion of the future of the Social Security system, including a summary of the report from the Social Security Administration Advisory Council issued in January 1997. The document also sets forth some philosophical issues pertaining to Social Security purposes and its funding.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on social insurance topics focusing on the short and long term financing issues of Social Security, the issue of general revenue financing, and proposals to revise benefit structures. Both U.S. and Canadian systems are discussed.

Description: The article explores how deeply the Affordable Care Act reduced the Medicare Advantage benchmark payment rates and quantifies how much of that reduction Medicare Advantage Organizations earned back through quality bonuses.

Description: Discusses and critiques the book Social Security: Perspectives for Reform.

Description: Continues actuarial discussion on the book Social Security: Perspectives for Reform.

Description: The presenters will provide an update of the Social Security Program’s financial status and discuss recent proposals for modifying the program.

Description: This is a discussion about recent developments in Medicare in the United States and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No. 53 AB

Description: This paper presents the amendments enacted by Congress in 1958 to the Social Security Act. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.