Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Target Markets - true third party, fictitious trust, individuals, Media - mail, television, periodicals, Product choice and design.

Description: This article from major US payers describes palliative care as a scaleable means of improving quality and reducing costs during serious and complex illness.

Description: This article is about the relationship of brand advertising to direct marketing and how to bridge the gap.

Description: This essay focuses on elements of success in a system linked to employment.

Description: Representatives of various health care professions will address issues such as falling hospital occupancy rates and a growing shortage of primary care physicians. The presenters will then discuss the short-term and long-term effects of these issues on the health care delivery systems on North America. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52. This article presents information from a recently completed client-sponsored survey of hospital contracting best practices. Individual health plans were evaluated using a structured survey document. The primary objective of the survey was to identify best practices that the client sponsor could implement to improve its already better-than-average hospital contracting practices

Description: The purpose of this document is to inform the user of the 2022 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: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are research projects and reports on long-term care (LTC) insurance.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are experience studies for long-term care insurance.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that in today's direct-response marketplace, the consensus is that there are a lot of problems, and some promises, but little, if any, profitability, the panelists discuss long-term care, dread disease, and return of premium [ROP] products, and targeting profitability through research. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.