Description: This is a final report to help individual health plans evaluate and manage their potential exposure during a specific pandemic. It examines the potential impact of pandemic influenza on different payers in the U.S. health care system.

Description: This article contains a condensed summary and excerpt from the fourth white paper in the Commercial Health Care: What’s Next? series.

Description: The ACA’s Medical Loss Ratio Provisions

Description: This section contains multiple book reviews and notices concerning the actuarial profession. Reviews: 'Medical Risks: Patterns of Mortality and Survival' by Singer and Levinson, 'The Theory and Practice of Pension Funding' by Trowbridge and Farr, 'Two Stochastic Processes' by Beekman, 'Disability Income Insurance - Cost Differentials between Men and Women' by New York Insurance Department, 'Social Security and Private Pension Plans: Competitive or Complementary' by McGill, 'A New Look at Accounting for Pension Costs' by Hall and Landsittel, '1977 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds...,' 'Investigation of Sickness Statistics - Individual Policies, 1971 and 1973' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'The Graduation of Pensioners and of Annuitants Mortality Experience 1967-70' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'Pensions and Survival - the Coming Crisis of Money and Retirement' by Calvert, 'Group Benefits in a Changing Society' by Spencer, 'Experience of Disabled Work Benefits under OASDI 1965-74' by Bayo and Wilkin. Digests also included.

Description: Statement of the American Council of Life Insurers on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in the Financial Services Sector before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Financial Services Committee of the United States Congress, June 29, 2006

Description: Successful healthcare reform: First, it must help that must keep healthy people healthy. Second, it must help people mitigate or eliminate the health-risks associated with unhealthy lifestyle behavior choices, and Third, it must ensure the provision of evidence-based care to those who are ill.

Description: Medical and industry experts discuss Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome [AIDS], epidemiological projections, mortality and morbidity trends, underwriting practices, solvency and regulatory issues, future outlook, and activities of the Society of Actuaries Task Force on AIDS. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: Introduction to the ACA @ 5 publication

Description: A physician discusses white matter lesions on the brain - their nature, causes, severity, importance, associated risks, and underwriting implications for long term care insurance.

Description: CLASS Act and ACA