Description: Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discusses health care and health policy.

Description: Parables and Prophecies Prevent Predictive Prowess

Description: An introduction to the Forecasting & Futurism section's 2014 contest, where participants are encouraged to explore a forecasting application and develop it. The article discusses the contest, the scoring, and the prize.

Description: A review of the 2009 Health Spring Meeting, which included speakers & sessions on the future of the SOA, U.S. health care reform, claims data issues & improvements, predictive modeling, underwriting principles, employer stoploss, cost trends, LTD & disability, and mental health parity regulations.

Description: This article provides an overview of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) model act, and of enterprise risk management (ERM). Compared to other actuarial disciplines, health actuaries have not historically focused as much on ERM. But health coverages do have risks that can threaten an insurer's solvency, and ORSA (now in force in most states) will force health insurers to beef up their ERM capabilities.

Description: Simple Rating Systems: Entry-level sports forecasting

Description: Interview with Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change.

Description: Rick Foster, chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services discusses public policy

Description: These past two years have been the most challenging of my professional career, and I’m certainly not unique in this regard. Fortunately, I’ve benefited from a little help from my friends in the actuarial community—no one sticks together like actuaries.

Description: The winner's curse, applied to Affordable Care Act plan pricing.