Description: This article is about the very rapid pace of Health care reform on both the national and state level. The challenge is to ensure that viable financing vehicles are developed for cost effective health care delivery.

Description: This article is about the growth of health actuaries and new opportunities in light of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Balanced Budget Amendment of 1997.

Description: This session is about rationing health care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about core benefit plans from a state and from a national level. Core benefit plan is used interchangeably in this session with standard benefit plan, basic benefit plan, and minimum benefit plan. Topics included: 1. A summary of the legislative process. 2. A summary of options available within the national health-care debate, with a primary focus on the Clinton proposal. 3. The role of core benefit-plans in health-care reform.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. In this session the panelists provided five different perspectives of small-group health insurance reform. Perspectives included: 1. Legislative issues perspective. 2. A small group insurance company perspective. 3. The employer perspective. 4. The reinsurance perspective. 5. The compliance perspective.

Description: Panelists present the positions being staked out by the political parties, the likelihood of passage of any of the proposed legislation, and the potential impacts on the health care market of the various proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 131PD.

Description: This session discusses the role the Academy plays in helping policymakers understand the implications of health policy decisions. This session also includes an overview of the Health Practice Council, Hill briefings and recent legislative issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 62