Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the purpose and expectations for medical savings accounts [MSA] at the time the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was enacted, and whether these expectations have been achieved.

Description: This session discussion is about health rate filing regulations for small group and individual products, small group model update and current issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: This session discussion is about what's happening in the USA and the rest of the world, what does it cost and who pays, changes in Britain, and what are we going to do. Includes a discussion on the Masschusetts system and the Kennedy bill. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1989 Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion about individual health rate filings asks the following seven questions and answers each pro and con: 1. Should individual accident and health be guaranteed renewable? 2. Should there be rate increase caps? 3. Should duration rating be permitted? 4. Should optional pre-filing be permitted? 5. Should loss ratios be increased? 6. Should the pending small-group regulation laws apply to the individual policy area? 7. Should the loss ratio be the only determinant in the approval of a rate change? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4B.