Description: Issue No. 36. Issues relating to Provider Sponsored Organizations PSOs contracting with HCFA to sponsor Medicare + Choice. Article discusses revenue and the addition of non-Medicare covered benefits.

Description: During the SOA’s recent Living to 100 Symposium, one of the sessions that got me thinking much more deeply about the financing of public retirement plans was titled “Mortality Age Patterns: Trends and Projections.”

Description: An excerpt from the 2002 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds which describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the intermediate assumptions. Also, projections of program costs are presented under two alternate sets of assumptions.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1994 – Volume 28, No. 5 in which the author looks at the original estimates compared the actual estimates in regards to End Stage Renal Disease ESRD program.

Description: This presentation from Session 99PD of the SOA 1999 Seattle Spring Meeting is about the data sources and advice used by the Health Care Financing Administration in choosing the assumptions used for projecting Medicare costs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss current implications of the MMA on Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement plans, and introduce the new Part D prescription drug benefit. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 107

Description: This paper discusses the quality of healthcare verses the price of healthcare and puruses individuals and doctors making decisions for their own healthcare costs and services.

Description: A glossary of terms.

Description: While there are many issues in healthcare, the single most significant issue is cost, both in terms of the cost today and in terms of the growth in cost over the past several decades. We need to increase the ability of all citizens to purchase healthcare services or health insurance that in turn purchases healthcare services, and decrease the growth in the cost of healthcare.

Description: Essay reforming healthcare where participants have a vested interest in reaching the best answer.