Description: This article lists the top priority issues for SOA health committees for 2003 and their support for the Healthcare System in Crisis project, which is focused on giving the public an actuarial perspective on the dynamics and interrelationships of the healthcare system.

Description: Panelists with close ties to prescription drug programs provide information such as factors driving pharmacy cost increases, combating rising utilization, and the value of mail-order drug programs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 53