Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the wide variety of proposals in Congress to reform the health care/insurance system including Medicare and Medicaid.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting focuses on the polictical landscape with respect to health care issues including Medicare, prescription drug coverage, the concept of a patient's 'bill of rights', and other health care reform ideas.

Description: This session explores the use of genetic testing in the health insurance business and protecting privacy. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 130

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses the public policy issues regarding access to health insurance coverage. In particular, the speakers focus on the problem of the uninsured and on the debate of shifting from a primarily employer-sponsored financing of health-care coverage to an individual market system or greater government subsidies.

Description: A discussion of the similarities and differences in social security benefit design, indexation, and financing in Canada, the United States and other countries.