Description: An excerpt from the 2002 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds which describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the intermediate assumptions. Also, projections of program costs are presented under two alternate sets of assumptions.

Description: Essay reforming healthcare where participants have a vested interest in reaching the best answer.

Description: This paper identifies and discusses issues affecting retirees’ abilities to successfully navigate medical insurance choices after their employer retiree medical insurance group benefit plan has been terminated and replaced by an outsourced health reimbursement account (HRA) providing accessibility to a stipend through eligible medical insurance claims submissions.

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 dramatically changes the competitive landscape for Medicare products by establishing the Medicare+Choice program. This session recaps the Balanced Budget Act's impact on payment rates for capitated plans and the effects that the changes have made on benefit design and enrollment trends in certain geographical areas.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto discusses the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 - DEFRA, FASB proposals and the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 - REA. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A in Toronto

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Examines benefit plan design dynamics, including FAS 106 impacts, involved in Medicare retiree plans by discussing some typical examples.

Description: This excerpt from the 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund describes the basic methodology and assumptions used in the estimates for the intermediate assumptions. Also presented are the projections of program costs under the twp alternative sets of assumptions.

Description: Chairperson's corner for January 2020 In the Public Interest.