Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses trends affecting costs for prescriptions, factors behind these trends, and cost management strategies for both the commercial and Medicare markets.

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 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