Description: Current Status of managing costs & increasing costs, Future Direction of Consumerism, technology and defined contribution health plans. Issue No. 39.

Description: This session is about the impact of health-care reform on supplemental health insurance plans such as Medicare Supplement, Hospital, Cancer, etc. The session will also explore new opportunities for supplementary markets and products. Included is a discussion of the CHAMPUS and FEHBP. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, that discusses rising health care costs and the challenge it is to actuaries to study the numerous causes and to devise practical means for modifying their effects.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the techniques for understanding and analyzing trends in medical care, including: utilization and cost components, analysis of cyclical behavior, use of econometric models, and aggregate trend vs. employer-specific needs.

Description: Essay discussing cost, quality and access of healthcare and then describes the need for rationing.

Description: David Dranove, the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University, Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management speaks on the topic, “From Marcus Welby to Managed Care.” From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 18

Description: Attendees learn the major issues on both sides of the single-payer health care issue. They learn the challenges associated with a massive conversion of our health care system and explore the economic impact of such changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 110

Description: The purpose of this document is to inform the user of the 2021 Health Care Cost Model about the sources of data, other reports, and assumptions which were used to populate this report and drive some of the key considerations.

Description: Family members who care for people with dementia need a wide range of support services to help them do the important work of care giving at home.

Description: Discussion of steps that can be taken to control costs and future plan design changes. Part 2 of a 2 part series. Issue No. 48.