Description: This section presents and summarizes major life insurance-related legal cases from 1956, including claims issues, contract interpretation and misrepresentation by applicants.

Description: Prescribers, payers, and patients must put a higher priority on the comparative cost-effectiveness of competing pharmaceutical products if society is ever going to achieve rational and affordable drug use for all. From Prescription Drugs Monograph, M-HB04-1.

Description: Brief discussion of future anticipated health reform and information on papers discussing these reforms. Topics include Medicare, individual insurnace, tax credits & subsidies, pre-Medicare retirees and Medicaid

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the demise of a company, the crisis and the solution.

Description: Essay reforming management in health care, structure of reimbursement, program management, health information, measurement systems, etc.

Description: This literature guide focuses on individual life insurance distribution, with an emphasis on marketing operations which use the agency distribution system - although much of the material is applicable to direct response marketing.

Description: This article comments on a 1972 paper on the same subject by John Fraser, which made a very careful analysis of the relation between the current earnings rate and the taxable interest. The author builds on Fraser’s illustrative calculations, which showed clearly that there was an optimal spread between the current earnings rate and the assumed reserve interest rate to produce the maximum interest deduction, by including an analysis of the after-tax yield effect.

Description: A suggestion to review and reassess LTC pricing of the last three decades, in light of dangerously inadequate ratesetting in the early years, and the NAIC's introduction of a model rate stability law.

Description: Successful healthcare reform: First, it must help that must keep healthy people healthy. Second, it must help people mitigate or eliminate the health-risks associated with unhealthy lifestyle behavior choices, and Third, it must ensure the provision of evidence-based care to those who are ill.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1957, including a case regarding interpretation of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 with amendments, FIT deduction of group disability benefits, FTC jurisdiction over advertising, group life employee ineligibility and incontestable clause, date of reinstatement, and claims issues.