Description: This article examines the costs of mental health parity, presents the primary drivers of cost increases from legislation and shows evidence the initial cost projections were too high. From Health Section News, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: The SOA Research Institute has executed research for over twenty years on some repeating themes and topics. The reports build on each other and add content. This article summarizes and discusses a summary report on long-term care, caregiving and housing linked to long-term care and caregiving.

Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 8E: Insurance M&A Valuation Methodologies and Considerations 9.1.21 Recording

Description: The discussion will review major elements of the reinsurance market as health care reform replaces traditional markets. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: An economics professor and a health care consumer advocate weigh in on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including implementation issues, directions for the future and what role actuaries shoudl take.

Description: The essay discusses the appropriate role of insurance companies, efficient and economical ways to care for chronic illnesses and having a maximum price society will pay to support the ongoing life of any one individual.

Description: COVID-19 is causing changes to nursing homes that will last beyond the pandemic. Nursing homes serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries; so, in the public interest, we should consider how changes to nursing homes might impact these populations.