Description: On May 16th, the Social Security Boards of Trustees sent to the Congress the three annual reports OASDI, HI, and SMI. These reports present cost projections similar to those provided to the Congress last year at the time of enactment of the 1977 Amendments.

Description: Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task forces, to educate health care policymakers on issues including principles for reform, Medicare, the individual insurance market, and risk factors.

Description: Book review for An American Philosophy of Social Security written by the chairman for the original Social Security Advisory Council and discusses the original and subsequent thinking about social security.

Description: June 2013 issue of the Social Insurance & Public Finance Section newsletter, In The Public Interest.

Description: A review of a book by a former Commissioner of Social Security, in which he shares his thoughts on what Social Security is, the new law, the financing, the benefits, the types of employment covered, the benefit amounts, the retirement test, and several subsidiary topics.

Description: Essay reforming healthcare where participants have a vested interest in reaching the best answer.

Description: Discussion of the Society of Actuaries' first consumer education program, dealing with Social Security funding and the contributors to the program. There is a hint of a discussion of the results of a survey of the value of the program, but the sentence ends in mid stream. There is also a discussion that there will be a similar education program directed at Medicare in the future but there is no discussion of this future program in the article.

Description: Feature article presenting a synopsis of the Social Insurance and Public Finance Pension Sub-committee.

Description: Essay reforming uninsured health care.

Description: Summary of recent activity in the social insurance and public finance section and invitation to volunteers.