Description: On March 6, 2023, The Wall Street Journal hosted its Health Forum, a hybrid all-day event. The virtual meeting featured 11 different events. This white paper focuses on those events. The sessions were informative and fast-paced, with each one providing a quick hit of relevant and cutting-edge information around health care.

Description: This is a paper from the session on Palliative Care: Understanding the Issues and How They Affect the Actuary at the January 15-18, 2023, 2023 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: In the United States, individuals needing long-term services and supports (LTSS) access care, utilize services, and pay for their services in various ways. The authors explore how the need for, utilization of and payment for long-term services and supports differ in the U.S. by population cohorts. Their primary focus is disparity by race and ethnicity, but they also consider variations by geography, family structure, age, sex, gender and other socioeconomic factors.

Description: Read this SOA Research Institute report to more about the reasons for provider consolidations and shortages as well as their impact on health care morbidity.

Description: 2023 Section Ballot - Long Term Care

Description: Quantifying Long Term Effects of COVID-19 on Health Care Costs

Description: View the Stakeholder Views on a Public Program to Provide Long-Term Care Catastrophic Coverage

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to make available a report that explores stakeholder views in Minnesota on the efficacy of a public catastrophic long-term care insurance program at the state level.

Description: View the SOA Research Institute report "Long-Term Care Coverage: Stakeholder Thoughts on State-Based Catastrophic Insurance" in Simplified Chinese

Description: A discussion of the significant challenges involved in attempting to research with robust analysis the impact of disparities in health care access, cost and quality of care on financial wellness across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other demographic groups in the U.S. for reasons other than or in addition to income, wealth or employment status.