Description: This article is about the very rapid pace of Health care reform on both the national and state level. The challenge is to ensure that viable financing vehicles are developed for cost effective health care delivery.

Description: This article spotlights four groups that are all working to move the SOA’s strategic agenda forward.

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 details a national report on health care. Most of the Report of the 1970 National Health Forum is given over to the formal papers and prepared commentaries thereon that served to stimulate discussion at the Forum. The papers themselves amount to statements by proponents of what were perceived to be three alternatives in the financing of health care and three alternatives in the organization of health care.

Description: The article explores how deeply the Affordable Care Act reduced the Medicare Advantage benchmark payment rates and quantifies how much of that reduction Medicare Advantage Organizations earned back through quality bonuses.

Description: The SOA’s recent work related to public policy research and an update on the General Insurance track.

Description: An article about the benefits of the SOA’s newest designation, CERA, and how to obtain it.

Description: Recently completed experience and research studies from the SOA.

Description: Presidential address about changes in the actuarial world.

Description: This article explores what American medicine might look like in the year 2000. The author asserts this will depend on the tradeoffs made between quality and availability on the one hand, and cost on the other hand.

Description: This article explores the trend in mergers and acquisitions among health insurance providers including the rationale for the recent increase in activity.