Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is highlighting recent developments in the Chicago health care delivery system, the involvement of Chicago area HMOs, PPOs and insurers in the financing and delivery of health care services, and issues unique to the Chicago market as well as issues applicable to other geographical areas.

Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: The moderator will review senior health products: Medicare supplement, Medicare risk, hospital indemnity policy HIP, cancer, accidental death AD, and employer continuance. Discussion will include product design, pricing, administration, regulation, and marketing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Presenters discuss the differences between patient treatment protocols and length-of-stay guidelines, and some of the issues that payers confronted as the protocols were implemented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This is a discussion of universal life products. It includes: 1. Benefit structure including underwriting and reinsurance, values, and surplus requirements 2. Asset-liability matching 3. Taxes, expenses, and administration 4. Consumer protection, including the company's obligations, at time of sale 5. Marketing, sales compensation, and replacement questions Specifically it highlights the benefit structure asset-liability matching taxes, expenses and administration consumer protection, including the company's obligations, at time of sale and marketing, sales compensation and replacement questions.

Description: This is a discussion of Universal Life insurance, dealing with: 1. Product characteristics 2. Sales compensation 3. Marketing support 4. Regulatory treatment 5. Taxation 6. Administration