Description: This session discussed: Emerging trends in government financing, availability and scope of public programs Medicare supplement products implications New opportunities for the private sector e.g., Medicare Health Maintenance Organizations Future Federal Insurance Contributions Act Tax. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 1 San Francisco

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] two American Council of Life Insurance [ACLI] studies, one covering U.S. programs and the other covering Canadian programs, [2] characteristics and attitudes of Americans aged 50 to 64, [3] older baby boomers as potential customers, and [4] long-range consequences of baby boomers on social insurance programs. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.