Description: This article examines the costs of mental health parity, presents the primary drivers of cost increases from legislation and shows evidence the initial cost projections were too high. From Health Section News, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: This session takes a fresh look at the issues related to acute care focus and the challenges of providing coordinated care for chronic conditions in the United States. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 80

Description: The first Intercompany Study of the Long-Term-Care Experience Committee and the first public report on experience of lives insured under private insurance plans. Includes incidence rates, lapse rates and claim costs. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1993-94 Reports

Description: This session discussion is about the report of the Task Force and its implications for the future of the actuary. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This research paper investigates health care costs in the last year of life. This paper looks specifically at the issues of measurement of retiree health care costs when the baseline healthcare costs are measured in terms of the last year of life costs and maintenance costs.

Description: This paper describes some of the more important actuarial characteristics of the insured variable annuity of the type currently offered by a number of life insurance companies in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.

Description: This Letter to the Editor is a response by the author of the article 'Predictive Modeling with Consumer Data' to two previously published Letters to the Editor. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: Presented at the Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. Long-term care LTC insurance is frequently not covered by national social insurance programs. When costs are expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product, the future burden of financing LTC would not lead to unbearable tax levels and is not particularly large in comparison to the projected costs for pensions and health care. After identifying the breadth of definitions of LTC needs, it is argued that LTC is an insurable risk. The paper concludes that LTC social insurance is affordable in developed countries.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of a new approximation to determine contingency reserves against adverse mortality experience for a portfolio of life annuity contracts.

Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations