Description: Introduction to additional actuarial research into development of and regulatory impact, economic impact and consumer impact of prescription drugs in the United States. Intended to further educate actuaries and others who work in this area and motivate more actuarial involvement to increase transparency, increase competition, better align stakeholder incentives and better mitigate total cost of care increases

Description: Remain a competitor in health insurance with value, knowing the competition, and using external experts Issue No. 37.

Description: Health Care in Ireland public care, private insurance, risk adjustment Issue No. 39.

Description: Discusses variability in per capita health-care costs by health-care provider.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss the roles of the federal and state governments in regulating health care insurance, the potential overlaps of these jurisdictions, and how insurance companies, health plans, and providers are being affected.

Description: The question of sex discrimination in employee pension plans in life insurance programs is only part of the more general issue of risk classification. Challenges to the old ways of classifying risks are not limited to pensions or to life insurance. It also impacts auto insurance, health insurance, and all other areas. However, for this discussion we will concentrate on sex discrimination in pension and retirement plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: Article discusses what happends when an insurer fails, role of the guaranty association and what is an ideal insolvency. From Health Section News, August 2000, Issue No. 38.

Description: This panel discussion session examines the marketing and pricing considerations of group insurance in the 1980's.

Description: This is a guide to underwriting literature which covers a broad range of underwriting issues and the actuary's role in underwriting.

Description: This paper examines the 'King intervaluation method' within the framework of a health insurance valuation system. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 45.