Description: Discussion regarding who's to blame for cost increase, Government's role to ensure coverage and keep costs down, steps to control costs, plan design changes. Issue No. 47.

Description: David Dranove, the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University, Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management speaks on the topic, “From Marcus Welby to Managed Care.” From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 18

Description: Discussion of steps that can be taken to control costs and future plan design changes. Part 2 of a 2 part series. Issue No. 48.

Description: An article that illustrates an actuary's finding that that federal and state governments spend more dollars for health care than employers and individuals spend for health insurance plans.

Description: Panel discusses trends in large health claims, recent experience, and future expectations, as well as the impact of managed care on large individual health claims under self-insured programs and under an HMO setting. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, April 2004, Issue No. 47.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, July 2007, Issue No. 60.

Description: An article that provides an actuary's opinion of why health insurance reform will work and believes that Congress should use insurance reform as the cornerstone for successful legislation.

Description: Panelists discuss the implications of 9 / 11 , such as disaster planning for business operations, geographic concentrations of risk, terrorism clauses, carrier response, legislative changes that may help carriers limit risk, accidental death-only programs, effects on health and disability costs, changes in practices and changes in claim incurrence and payments patterns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 128

Description: Full version of Health Section News, October 2002, Issue No. 44.