Description: A compilation of feedback from actuaries in the Health Section of the affects of the ACA.

Description: Article about the future roles in health insurance.

Description: This study is intended to educate insurance professionals on historical insurer impairments and insolvencies and possible future prevention indicators.

Description: China’s pension system has transformed from traditional retirement system based on command economy to modern pension system based on market economy .

Description: Report of findings for Society of Actuaries research project on the financial reporting for insurance contracts under possible future international accounting standards. This project studies the modeling of Certain Life and Health Insurance and Annuity Products Offered by U.S. and Other Insurers for the Purpose of Measurement of Liabilities under the International Accounting Standards Board’s Exposure Draft on Insurance Contracts and U.S. GAAP

Description: This monograph explains the ways actuaries are or could be involved in the self-insured employer health plan marketplace today and in the future.

Description: There is a wide range of literature on aging and health care. We sample this literature and find it fits into the subcategories of theoretical aging, medical significance of aging, treatment of the elderly, and resource allocation to the elderly. Themes are that financial arrangements can cause inefficient and ineffective care and that care guidelines need to developed specifically for the elderly rather than extrapolating guidelines for younger patients.

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Fallacy of the Fed Model

Description: In the course of consulting engagements, actuaries almost always find they need one or more of the following resources: -Healthcare data, which may be at the individual patient level or on a particular population. -Health services research studies which describe, summarize, try to alter, or predict patients’ use of health resources. -Health policy information, which describe public or private actions which affect the access, cost and quality of medical care. This document describes the ever-changing resources and specifies where they may be obtained.

Description: Analysis of the impact of projected multiemployer pension plan insolvencies over 20 years on affected participants and participating employers.