Description: This article is a review of the book, Insurance Coverage for All...And How Insurers Can Afford To Provide It, by Maria Thomson. The book focuses on the lack of penetration by life insurance companies into the middle market noting the issues and providing suggested solutions.

Description: Projecting start-up capital requirements for Health care co-ops and public plans

Description: Since the world in which actuaries work is both expanding (through 'data science' opportunities) and contracting (since 'data scientists' are doing work formerly done by actuaries), the role of education actuaries is at a tipping point. Members of the Society who are in higher education and representatives from the business community will discuss ways in which the two worlds of business and education have worked together in the past, what can be done by each group to assist the other, and what the future may hold.

Description: A study on stochastic simulation literature as it applies to a health actuary.

Description: A summary of a survey the Society of Actuaries recently conducted of health payer and provider executives to glean insights into predictive analytics trends.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, Issue No. 48, October 2004.

Description: Full version of Smaller Consulting Firm Section, June 2004, Issue No. 5.

Description: An actuary presents his concerns regarding the imposition of continuing professional development requirements for actuaries primarily on principle and the requirement's economic implications. Another actuary presents rebuttal which will assist all actuaries in an understanding of how the board reached the decision to institute the continuing education standards.

Description: A dinner speech at the Actuarial Research Conference at Drake University, Des Moines IA summer 2023. A ramble through 50 years of experience with actuarial research.

Description: This is an article about population risk management and using it to reduce health insurance costs.