Description: Volunteers and staff from the SOA are working with the Centers for Disease Control on public health initiatives to improve population health.

Description: A list of acronyms for the names of the agencies, unions, and other organizations and entities involved in the French social insurance, health policy, and long-term care environment.

Description: Congress once again turns to defined benefit pension plans as a misguided source for financing programs that have nothing to do with retirement.

Description: Top down approach to retirement results in wasting the human capital of retirees. We should concentrate, instead on allowing our clients to use their human capital to the fullest extent possible, and structure retirement products around that premise.

Description: Answering the question: Do you think that genetic information is different, and if so, should insurers handle it differently from other medical information?

Description: Discussion of some of the debated aspects of the new health care law from an actuarial principles perspective.

Description: Letter from the editor discussing the articles in the June issue of In The Public Interest.

Description: The article presents descriptions of the July, 2015, newsletter articles, and the author suggests topics where future articles are welcome.

Description: This article talks about the challenges facing the FDA, especially those arising from the globalization of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Description: Feature article discussing the purpose of the SOA’s Reinsurance Section’s LEARN initiative.