Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session was about provider network building in nonmetropolitan areas. Question addressed: 1. How can an effective delivery system be built to serve rural areas? 2. What influence will health care reform have on such systems? 3. Does a single-payer system make sense for such populations? 4. How does health care reform impact nonmetropolitan markets?

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers living benefit riders including benefit designs, regulatory activity, tax status, pricing considerations and reserves.

Description: A discussion by several experts of reform activity at the state level will be included. What can be learned from reforms to date? What is likely to happen in the near term? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This session is about health insurance cash-flow testing through liability and asset modeling for individual disability income insurance and health valuations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: At this presentation from Session 81PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists examine current issues involving small-employer health reinsurance programs from viewpoints of both the direct writer and the reinsurer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session provides a description of several state purchasing alliances and their experience to date.

Description: This session discusses the merits of the Small Business Health Fairness Act [an amendment to ERSIA] and the implications of associations sponsoring health plans for small employer groups. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 35

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington Annual Meeting discuss the actuarial, business, clinical, and ethical issues related to physician ownership of health plans.

Description: This presentation from Session 78PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting discusses state health-care reform over the past decade and offers insights as to what has worked, what hasn't, and what has been a total disaster. The panelists further discuss the states' responses to reforms that simply have not worked and the industry's response to this challenging environment. Finally, they share their ideas of the direction they expect to see state-level reforms to take. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.