Description: Panelist discuss lifestyle issues and their effects on medical costs, both for managing costs and for making decisions about plan design. Topics include employer responses, lifestyle-based profiling, and obesity. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 27

Description: Panelists use defined-contribution health plan case studies to review successful plan designs, effective plan communication strategies and plan implementation issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 64

Description: This session discussion is about multiple employer truest issues, initial underwriting, renewal underwriting, claim control and reserving methods. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss consumer-directed health plans [CDHPs], describing: [1] plan design, how they work, and pricing considerations, [2] various reserving issues, and [3] the current and future marketplace for the products. Session 43PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.