Description: Chairperson's Corner discussing actuarial principles and what we as actuaries value in our work.

Description: Discussion about career events for an actuary working on health care reform

Description: This article provides an overview of the key provisions and impacts of the Affordable Care Act's Cadillac Plan Excise Tax.

Description: Overview of research project to investigate the extent of funding of public government retiree health programs.

Description: In the Public Interest 2014 Issue 10 The Emerging Pricing: Shock in the Treatment for Hepatitis C

Description: Discusses effect of allowing companies to sell health insurance policy in any state, if approved in one state, without requiring approval in any other state.

Description: Overview of a new research project undertaken by SIPF on the topic of OPEB funding in the US.

Description: Beneficiaries who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid often have complex health needs. The two programs have not typically been well integrated and care can become uncoordinated, fragmented and incomplete. The ACA includes provisions to address the shortcomings.

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: Comparison of Healthy Michigan and Healthy Indiana Plan Medicaid expansion programs.