Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.

Description: This paper presents population hospital utilization data concerning the proportion of total hospital days that is due to injury and the proportion of total hospital days that is spent in intensive care units for use in obtaining reserve factors. The paper also presents continuation data for hospitalizations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: Many executives are talking about predictive analytics uses in health insurance.

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: An essay suggesting a health care financing system.

Description: This essay highlights a view that many have for meeting these goals is one of a two-tiered system. The first tier in this system is a universal one controlled by the federal government, while the second tier is a private sector supplementing the first tier. The remainder of this paper will examine this two-tiered system and how various stakeholders in today’s system will be affected.

Description: Republicans have promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act for years. Now that they have power, what will Republican health care reform look like?

Description: Panel discusses the effects of reduced payment levels to many Medicare managed care organizations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the major features of the Canadian health care program and the U.S. market, including current deliberations for change. An assessment of how aspects of each country's handling of health care could be applied to the other country is discussed.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discusses the mass marketing of individual health insurance, including Section 125 products, trends and problems in direct response, and claim settlement issues.