Description: Pre-eminent healthcare actuaries and policy experts present their pitch for how they'd fix US healthcare (whatever they think 'fix' means) if they were supreme policy maker for a day. No idea is too big, and no policy dream is too small! Each candidate will have only a short time to win the audience's approval and will need to survive a grilling after the pitch. The audience will vote on the winner, who will be crowned 'ImpAct Meeting Healthcare Policy Wonk' for 2024!

Description: In the U.S., the insurance industry is regulated by the individual states. Learn more about the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), which reviews and proposes model laws and assesses emerging issues.

Description: The document is a literature review on maternal mortality in the United States, focusing on trends, disparities, measurement issues, data quality, and monitoring systems. It also discusses how different indicators and definitions impact the understanding of maternal mortality in the country.

Description: Join us for a discussion of the supplemental health landscape for accident, critical illness, STD, and hospital indemnity products. This session will include both the pricing actuary and the regulator perspectives on new approaches, trends, renewal rate strategies, the competitive market, state-specific requirements, and more!!Attendees will learn about changes in the market that will help them price products, evaluate new approaches used in the voluntary market, and identify the issues that will make their products successful.

Description: This session will discuss the macro-economic impact (tariff/changing interest rate environment/government fiscal policy and etc.) on the insurance industry. We will relate this to the actuarial function such as corporate strategy/risk management/product pricing & marketing

Description: Discover an update on recent developments affecting U.S. retirement plans, such as regulatory guidance, new legislative proposals, recent court cases and recent trends. Experienced pension actuaries will share their perspectives on these issues and the impact on plan sponsors.

Description: Comparison of domestic and international PFML programs

Description: The National Academy of Social Insurance (the Academy) recently released a comprehensive study on models for states interested in pursuing social insurance initiatives for LTSS, paid leave and child care reform. The report explores strategies that states could pursue to better support families in meeting evolving care needs over the lifespan. Actuarial projections for illustrative policy options are included. The presenters will report back the Academy study panel's findings, provide in-depth insights into Washington State's new long-term care social insurance program, and briefly report on other state activity in the LTSS and paid leave domains.

Description: To some degree, we all operate in an environment influenced by regulation and accounting standards. This session builds on the first session in this series by considering how regulators are reacting to the biometric influencers, then delving into the impact of changing accounting standards on how firms assess, value and report on their business. Consideration will be given to uncertainties around pending regulation, including those uncovered in the process of firms implementing Principles Based Reserving and those yet to come with modifications to GAAP. This session is for anyone interested in better understanding the impact and influence that regulatory and reporting uncertainty has on their work.

Description: Administration system updates and conversions. Legacy systems and their associated problems. Continued low interest rates and in-force policy management actions affecting policyholder behavior. These are but a few of the taxation challenges facing insurers managing the growing complexity of their businesses.<p> Presenters will consider these and other product taxation-related issues, highlighting ways insurers have sought to address them, their impacts, and potential mitigation strategies