Description: Discusses variability in per capita health-care costs by health-care provider.

Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: In this session at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting, panelists discuss how managed care dental programs work, the actuarial issues, quality issues, and the perspective of the dentist.

Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.

Description: A humorous look at the spring 2013 activities that a health care actuary working on individual or small group health care reform would be involved in.

Description: This article discusses the potential characteristics of health care reform and the associated impact on small insurance companies.

Description: Health Care in Ireland public care, private insurance, risk adjustment Issue No. 39.

Description: Discussion of developments with regards to addressing major medical care needs since 1959, including the passage of Medicare.

Description: This article discusses health care reform in Kentucky. In 1994, Kentucky implemented health care reform measures inspired by the unsuccessful attempt at national health care reform in the Health Security Act of 1993. The measures adopted in Kentucky are described by the author as 'a textbook case of how not to engage in health care reform.' From: The Actuary, April 2000 – volume 34 - Issue 4.

Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.