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

Description: Health Watch, Issue 79, December 2015, Health Watch

Description: Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), groups with 50 or less full time employee equivalents will eventually be subject to the ACA’s modified community rating rules. While some groups will see lower premiums than they would have without the ACA, others will see significant premium increases. Many of the latter type opted for transitional relief beginning in 2014 to avoid the ACA as long as possible. With the end of transitional relief approaching in 2018, what will these groups do? One option will be to self-insure using a product generically termed Level Funding.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: This article explores telemedicine's impact on the health care system, health care costs, and actuarial pricing.

Description: This article describes the current Nigerian Insurance Industry.

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

Description: This article describes Health Savings Accounts HSAs and the tax and other aspects of these funds.

Description: This paper derives exact expressions for the ultimate ruin probability and establishes the effect of correlation on ruin probability using the Wiener-Hopf factorization.

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