Description: This session will recap the history of the involvement of the actuarial profession in the debates on health care reform. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This session discusses the role that the SOA, AAA and actuaries have played in developing/analyzing various federal health care reform proposals. What will the future hold for practicing health actuaries? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Discusses components of health-care inflation and their impact on health-insurance products. These components include: utilization trends, consumer price index [CPI] changes, regional variation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

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.

Description: This presentation from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting presents the results of risk adjusters' research in health insurance including risk adjustment in various states, the effect of community rating, biased selection and risk adjustment and methods of risk adjustment. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents the results of risk adjuster research in health care assessment and discusses the potential use of risk adjusters in health care reform efforts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about proposals for small group health insurance reform and other state regulatory changes and proposals in the states of Massachusetts, Maine and Florida.

Description: This session is about health risk adjusters and includes a discussion on risk assessment, actuarial applications, New York small-group reform, medical management applications, Rand 36, and other methods. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: This session is about health risk adjustments. Health care reform issues and Society of Actuaries research activities will also be discussed. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses common problems in creating a successful merger - such as not incorporating community support, and not achieving economies of scale - and how to avoid them.