Description: At this session of the SOA 1995 Vancourver Spring Meeting, members of the Long Term Care Insurance Valuation Methods Task Force present the conclusions and rationale found in their final report. Assumptions, methodology, and NAIC's view of the report are discussed.

Description: This session discussion is about the characteristics common in HMOs concentrating on the small employer market, Preferred Provider Organizations marketed to small employers, items requiring special attention when marketing Alternate Delivery Systems to small employers, alternate delivery options in an integrated multiple options package. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 1.

Description: The new incidence and continuance tables from the National Long-Term Care Survey based on activities-of-daily-living threshold and cognitive impairment will be presented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: In this session actuarial and benefit design issues of various health care reform proposals will be identified. An update on task force activities will be presented. The relative richness of benefits will be discussed. Key benefit components such as mental illness coverages will be featured. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss long-term care insurance from various viewpoints, including the consumer’s desires, needs, knowledge, and interests, intermediaries' role in defining benefits, cost of benefits such as inflation protection and nonforfeiture, financial ability to purchase, buying attitudes of the public for coverage, and trade-offs between price and features. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about delivering adequate universal health coverage. The panelists discuss the Canadian national health care system, Oregon's plan to seek a Medicaid waiver to implement a new format within which health care will be reimbursed, and the American Medical Association's [AMA's] Health Access America reform proposal. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4A.

Description: The discussion will review major elements of the reinsurance market as health care reform replaces traditional markets. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: This session discussed misc Health Section issues including trends in individual accident & health insurance, increases in health care costs, DRG payments, art & science of anticipation, health care cost containment, HMOs and PPOs. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1983 Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This discussion focused on possiblities related to controlling health care costs in the private sector using the HMO structure. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 3, SOA's 1980 June Meeting

Description: This session discussion is about long-term-care insurable events, academic beginnings, hierarchical structure, consumer/insurer impact, the need for standardization and an increasing emphasis on cognitive impairments. Focus is on Activities of Daily Living [ADLs].