Description: Reviews the book, HMOs and the Politics of Health System Reform, by Joseph Falkson which discusses HMOs' legislative and regulatory structuring.

Description: A committee chaired by former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, has published its findings from a study on the functioning of British financial institutions and their value to the economy. This article reports on five of the report's topics that are of special interest to actuaries.

Description: This article discusses how insurance regulation needed to evolve to meet the need for more understandable policy forms. This article was written before the Flesch Reading Ease test was in common use.

Description: In this article, the author discusses private pension policy recommendations from the first interim report of the President’s Commission on Pension Policy, released in May 1980, noting that it contains several recommendations similar to reforms strongly urged upon actuaries three years ago Record, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 902 by Karen Ferguson, Director of the Pension Rights Center, Washington, D.C. The author of this article discusses recommendations, including political views, on topics including mandatory pension coverage, vesting, and survivor protection.

Description: A review of the Flesch formula for measuring the readability of insurance policies