Description: A report on the SOA Board's Executive Committee's discussions and and resolutions in response to the Manhart case.

Description: The article discusses the sustainability of the ACA individual market from a public entitlement standpoint. A key point of measuring sustainability is the reliance on market forces rather than federal budget constraints. The article explains why an actuarial viewpoint of sustainability is necessary to a greater extent than other public assistance and social insurance programs. The article challenges actuaries to be a bold, objective voice in a space that is full of opinionated but often uninformed viewpoints.

Description: Sir Derek Morris carried out a review of the actuarial profession in the United Kingdom at the request of the UK government and reported in March 2005. This article starts with a reprint of an article originally published in The Actuary about the conclusions of the Morris report and continues with an update on what has happened over the 5 years since Morris reported.

Description: This session is about rationing health care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: Budget concerns should not be allowed to override sound actuarial rate development in setting Medicaid capitation rates.

Description: Discusses the life company actuary's responsibility to the insurance buying public, and the relationship to his concurrent responsibility to the agency force, stockholders, and present policyholders. Also discusses the employee benefit actuary's responsibility to plan beneficiaries and the relationship to his concurrent responsibility to employers and unions, and the public's interest in actuarial techniques and its need for meaningful actuarial explanation.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists start their discussion with an overview of the history of actuarial standards, and the operations of the Actuarial Standards Board, ‘ASB,” the autonomous body responsible for setting standards of practice. The discussion covers standards affecting insurance company actuaries and consultants, and the value and impact of standards on the actuary's work. Panelists also suggest areas where additional standards are needed. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: A discussion of the role and responsibilities of actuaries beyond crunching numbers