Description: Panel discusses trends in large health claims, recent experience, and future expectations, as well as the impact of managed care on large individual health claims under self-insured programs and under an HMO setting. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Discusses the MSVR: its purpose, how it has [or has not] met its purpose – especially for a company invested in high-risk securities – how it will be affected by the proposed valuation-law changes, and how to treat it in the actuarial opinion required by New York Regulation 126. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss major reforms of health care financing and delivery systems around the world. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss the ongoing influence and long-term implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on the health insurance market in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the insuring of the aging population in respect to assessment of the health of the insured and resulting mortality costs.

Description: Panelists cover recent developments and future possibilities for employer-sponsored retiree medical plan design including defined contribution health plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 40

Description: Panelists discuss the successes and shortcomings of disease management as the latest generation of effective managed care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Presenter discusses issues related to alternative care, as well as SOA activity in regard to alternative care. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Discusses the projected costs of social insurance programs in the U.S. and Canada, the experience of the British National Health Service on controlling costs versus providing quality service, the economic consequences of the projected high costs of social insurance and of the projected build-up and spend-down of the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance [OASDI] Trust Funds, and possible solutions to the financing of these programs. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss issues arising from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.