Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Special Investigation of Group Hospital Expense Insurance Experience by Stanley W. Ginger. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1952, Vol. 4, No. 10.

Description: This is a review of the publication entitled 'Medicare: Health Insurance for the Aged, 1969: Geographic Indices of Reimbursement by State and County.' It is of value to health actuaries because it contains information as to the variation in health insurance claim costs by geographical areas within the United States.

Description: Since detailed claim information is not readily available to the Committee on Group Mortality and Morbidity on an annual basis, a special investigation of group hospital expense experience has been conducted. That investigation is summarized in this paper, and covers plan descriptions, morbidity and cost data, and continuation tables.

Description: This 1977 report provided morbidity experience under individual health policies in force during the 1973 and 1974 calendar years.

Description: This is the twenty-seventh annual report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance. The report contains experience for the years 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973.

Description: This is the 1976 report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly indemnity insurance. This report contains experience for the years 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975.

Description: This is the 1970 report of the morbidity experience of group weekly indemnity insurance. This report contains experience for years labeled 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969.

Description: This is the 1977 report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly indemnity insurance. The report contains experience for the years 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976.

Description: This presentation is a Health Section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The session leader, the incoming chair of the section, covers administrative matters, and then the next speaker addresses a newly completed research project, sponsored by the Society and Health Section, on the variation by duration in small group medical insurance claim costs. The speakers then discuss current developments in small group reform, and the various parties involved, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], and the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and the work that has been done, including modeling to address the impact of a small group reform mechanism. The speakers discuss how the various parties' objectives can differ. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.