Description: At this luncheon session, the winning papers from the 1990 Society of Actuaries Health Section's research paper competition are presented. The two winning papers are: 1. 'The Natural Limitations of Health Care Trend: A Paper Concerned with Methodologies of Determining Trend Assumptions for Retiree Health Costs' by Jeffrey P. Petertil, and 2. 'Modeling Flexible Benefit Selection' by Charles S. Fuhrer and Arnold F. Shapiro. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.