Description: The panelists in this session discuss current industry practices and new considerations on many items of interest to LTD valuation actuaries. Topics include an update on the Group LTD Experience Study, assumptions and methodology for integration provisions, reserve margin illustrations using asset share models, and reserve run out analysis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 54

Description: There has been a proliferation of proposals to expand access to public health insurance plans, either to strengthen insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or to replace the ACA marketplaces or other health insurance programs altogether. These proposals range from creating a public plan that would operate alongside private plans in the ACA marketplaces, to allowing individuals to buy into Medicare or Medicaid, to expanding Medicare to all. The terms used to describe these various options are often used interchangeably but they would be structured differently and have different impacts depending on the implementation details. Panelists at this session will discuss the general approaches for expanding access to public plans and their potential implications.