Description: This session discussion is about home health care product development issues. Topics include marketing, insurability, plan design, available data, manged care, provider's viewpoint and public program experience. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Panel discusses a variety of current issues in the senior health-care marketplace, including the effects of current, pending, and proposed Medicare changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: By rationing health care resources, managed care organizations have raised ethical and legal issues not commonly found under previous financing structures. This session 95PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses these issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: In this presentation, Richard D. Lamm, former Governor of Colorado and currently Director of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues at the University of Denver, talks about the increasing costs of health care and why the miracles of American medicine have simply outpaced our ability to pay. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3A.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discusses how ratings and rating agencies affect health care insurance and related organizations. Advice is offered on maintaining a good relationship with rating services.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. The chairperson and members of the SOA LTC Insurance Valuation Methods Task Force discussed the major conclusions and decisions found in the exposure draft of the Society's Task Force for LTC Insurance Valuation Methods.

Description: The panel examines the forces underlying health plans and health carriers profit performance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 39

Description: This panel discussion presented at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis discussed competition in health care delivery from the perspective of what was happening in Minnesota, a key HMO state. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: Panelists provide an overview of the current long-term-care [LTC] market and trends. They cover recent hot topics such as pricing, rate stabilization, administration, marketing, and hybrid/combo products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 16

Description: This 1991 panel session discussion is a progress report of the Society of Actuaries' Long-Term Care [LTC] Experience Committee. The presentation is organized around three principle areas of the Committee's activities. The first area is noninsurance company experience. The second area is the Committee's 1984-89 study of intercompany insurance experience of monoline long-term care health insurance products. The third area is the Committee's efforts to develop the experience of continuing care retirement communities [CCRCs]. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.