Description: Remarks on a recent series of articles in 'The National Underwriter' on risk selection and related regulation.

Description: Article The Actuarial Politician by McCrossan in The Actuary, December 1979, Volume 13, Number 10.

Description: Mr. Myers tells about his recently ended position as Deputy Commissioner of Social Security for Programs and also his new position as Executive Director of the bi-partisan National Commission on Social Security Reform under President Reagan.

Description: This is an editorial by the president of the SOA on the subject of how the world views actuaries.

Description: Discusses a report prepared by Frank Kleiler for the US Department of Labor on a survey he conducted of the Canadian pension situation. Includes both the private and public pension systems.

Description: Discussing famous individuals who have interacted with the Actuarial profession.

Description: A proposal to reform current health care market, from a 'preferred payer' system, in which Medicare and Medicaid pay less than the true cost while others must then pay more, to a 'value for money' system. This would be achieved by requiring providers to bill all patients the same rate for the same services, with a standard bundling format to make all providers' rate differences transparent. Differences between billed charges and what Medicare pays would be made up by the Medicare patient, rather than subsidized by those outside of Medicare.

Description: A proposal to address provider payment issues by gradually moving to accountable care organizations. Capitations would be risk-adjusted, non-capitated costs would be covered by hospitalization fund and stoploss, incentives for quality & effective preventive care would be tied to the amount remaining in the fund, and government involvement would be through incentives rather than mandate.

Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest discussing the need for actuarial leadership in the reform of the U.S. health care system.

Description: This is a report on the Session 19 Panel Discussion at the Society of Actuaries October 2011 Annual Meeting. The session explored what it means to act in the public interest.