Description: Essay recommending establishing a consistent and actuarially sound foundation for assessing the costs and benefits of each and every current and new Medicare or other healthcare proposal.

Description: On October 19, 2011, the Social Insurance & Public Finance [SIPF] Section sponsored a session at the Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Chicago on the impacts of the federal health legislation called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PPACA]. This article summarizes the more salient comments of the panelists at that session.

Description: Why is it that two competent actuaries making reasonable assumptions can arrive at very different conclusions when evaluating the impact of proposed health care reforms? Are the answers really as different as they appear to be on the surface? This presentation from Session 137IF of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting outlines and highlights some of the key actuarial issues that arise in the course of these analyses. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: This discussion at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on methods and considerations that are currently being used in analyzing various risks of concern to the health valuation actuary. The session looks at concepts and types of risks, considerations and influences affecting the actuary, formulas and methods for evaluating risk, and the present status of the health insurance valuation actuary concept.