Description: This session discusses what will happen to supplemental coverages under health care reform. Topics include traditional group ancillary benefits, health care reform supplements, and traditional individual/group niche products? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Presenter describes many of the desirable characteristics of a health care financing system, and alternative health care financing systems as they are found in other parts of the world. The advantages and disadvantages of each alternative system are also discussed. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: A discussion by several experts of reform activity at the state level will be included. What can be learned from reforms to date? What is likely to happen in the near term? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This session dealt with Regulatory Considerations in Group Insurance. Topics included: 1. National health insurance. 2. Federal hospital cost control programs. 3. Non-discrimination legislation and regulation. 4. Multiple- employer trusts. 5. Impact of recent OASDI financing changes. 6. Changes in mandatory retirement age on group insurance.

Description: This session is about the impact of health-care reform on supplemental health insurance plans such as Medicare Supplement, Hospital, Cancer, etc. The session will also explore new opportunities for supplementary markets and products. Included is a discussion of the CHAMPUS and FEHBP. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: 2001 SOA Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Health care cost trends have substantially increased in the past two years. Panelists discussed the factors contributing to these increased trends, the prospect for further increases in the future, and national health care issues.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss the roles of the federal and state governments in regulating health care insurance, the potential overlaps of these jurisdictions, and how insurance companies, health plans, and providers are being affected.

Description: This session is about the Health insurance has become an important issue in this year's presidential election campaign. What effect will this have on the likelihood of major health-care reform, on public expectations about rights to health care, about perceptions of health insurers, etc? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

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

Description: This session will recap the history of the involvement of the actuarial profession in the debates on health care reform. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.