Description: Summary of a talk by Robert J. Myers given at a recent meeting of the Baltimore Actuaries Club on revising the standard premium rate for Supplementary Medical Insurance.

Description: This is an article explaining the options employers have under the Medicare Part D, or the Prescription Drug Improvement and Medicare Modernization Act - MMA - that took effect in January 2006. The article discusses 4 options under the MMA with the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Description: Overview of Medicare's 1979 financial projections under optimistic, pessimistic, and intermediate assumptions, for the Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance programs.

Description: This article is about the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. This Act revises the Medicare landscape by the creation of Part C - Medicare+Choice, Medical Savings Accounts, payment reforms.

Description: In this article, Dr. Ted LeBoy, Assistant Medical Director of Continental Assurance Co., commented on some changes that had been observed during the first eight months of Medicare's existence. These included changes in the average number of hospital days and physician charges.

Description: Provides background about Prescription Drug Plans, PDPs, and the standard benefit package offered under Medicare Part D. It also provides a basic overview of the bid-development process for a PDP and summarizes some general strategies and observations used in developing the 2006 bids that will likely be used for 2007.

Description: Summarizes the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, MMA. Focuses on changes to the Medicare Advantage, MA, program and the market reaction to date.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about Social Security's projected costs exceeding income

Description: This article is about a consumer education program sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Foundation, “On the edge of change: Putting Social Security back in balance” and plans for a similar project dealing with Medicare in the future.

Description: Book review for An American Philosophy of Social Security written by the chairman for the original Social Security Advisory Council and discusses the original and subsequent thinking about social security.