Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session provides a description of several state purchasing alliances and their experience to date.

Description: Discussion of possible national health care reform measures, including coverage for the unemployed, employer-mandated plans, publicly funded and administrated plans. Also an overview of recently enacted legislation at both the state and federal level, and measures taken by provider organizations, for controlling costs.. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York.

Description: This session discussion is about two proposals for health-care reform will be presented, one from the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association and one from the Council for Affordable Health Care. These dramatically different proposals will be compared and open for critique. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Evaluation of Taiwan's National Health insurance program and a discussion of a managed competition model to reform it.

Description: A summary of Medicare reform and its effect on prescription drug coverage.

Description: Panel discussion on how insurers can deal with the proliferation of laws, court decisions and regulations, and on the outlook for future developments in health insurance regulatory environment.