Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: Accurate forecasts of future health care expenditures for cohorts of elderly individuals can be especially difficult. Current techniques use average per capita costs, based on local experience, adjusted for the cohort's age, sex, institutionalization, and welfare status distribution. This paper presents a method to adjust such per capita cost estimates to reflect more accurately the likely health status of a particular cohort. The adjustment uses the cause-of-mortality profile in the local population, which is a readily available tabulation known to be highly correlated with a major proportion of total medical care expenditures for people beyond age 65. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984, Vol. 36.

Description: Why health care inflation exceeds the Consumer Price Index CPI due to tax implications. Issue No. 37.

Description: Essay stating accessibility, affordability and efficiency are the key to success in the future of healthcare.

Description: Drivers of Health Care Affordability. Issue No. 45.

Description: This article talks about the ultimate health care cost trend rate ssumption in retiree medical liability valuation work. Issue No. 59

Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.

Description: Overview of the book: Overtreated, Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.

Description: Recap of National Academy of Social Insurance NASI annual conference “Getting to Universal Health Insurance Coverage”

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 details a national report on health care. Most of the Report of the 1970 National Health Forum is given over to the formal papers and prepared commentaries thereon that served to stimulate discussion at the Forum. The papers themselves amount to statements by proponents of what were perceived to be three alternatives in the financing of health care and three alternatives in the organization of health care.