Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

Description: This panel focuses on the current social and economic issues of health insurance within Canada and the U.S., with particular issues in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This discussion is about comprehensice medical insurance and excess major medical coverage and includes specific measures taken to reduce claim experience, outlook for smaller groups, and claim costs of specific provisions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962 Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion reviews the appropriate roles of group insurance, individual insurance and governmental programs in providing protection against the cost of medical care for retired persons and other aged citizens. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This is a discussion about overinsurance and duplication of coverage - hospital and medical expense limits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: Discusses considerations taken in determining desirable limits on the amount of group life insurance per life - apart from legislative restrictions, problems presented in the extension of group medical insurance to retired lives, and recent group medical experience.

Description: This is a discussion about medical care insurance rating including morbidity, impact of group size and underwriting transfer cases. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17 Pt. 2, No. 47 AB

Description: This discussion focuses on the effect the introduction of provincial hospital plans in Canada has had on the trend of loss ratios on associated major medical expense plans. The discussion further looks at deductible amounts, coinsurance provisions, and maximum limits used under major medical expense plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Surgical and Medical Insurance by a Blue Shield Plan by Arthur Hunter and James F. Coleman. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1954, Vol. 6, No. 16.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss recent developments in expanding major medical expense coverage under individual policies and group policies, and progress made in providing hospital, surgical and medical expense coverage beyond age 65. Guaranteed renewability and substandard issues are discussed.