Description: Essay discussing that the two factors that affect healthcare cost are costs and the fact that people lack coverage.

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.

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: A proposal to address provider payment issues by gradually moving to accountable care organizations. Capitations would be risk-adjusted, non-capitated costs would be covered by hospitalization fund and stoploss, incentives for quality & effective preventive care would be tied to the amount remaining in the fund, and government involvement would be through incentives rather than mandate.

Description: This session discussed about expected trends in medical care costs, changes in Medicare reimbursement practices and their short- and long-term effects, the emerging responsibility for providing long-term care, rise of managed health care, new and old participants, selection issues, multiple options, and small group market.

Description: Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups.

Description: This session is about rationing health care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Article Health Insurance in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Research report sponsored by SOA to model and compare projected costs of different proposals for a Medicare prescription drug coverage plan. 3 types of costs are studied: net benefit cost estimates per member per month, continuance table data, and projected annual costs to the government over 10 years for two selected plan designs.

Description: Discussion of possible national health care reform measures, including coverage for the unemployed, employer-mandated plans, publicly funded and administrated plans. Also an overview of recently enacted legislation at both the state and federal level, and measures taken by provider organizations, for controlling costs.. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York.