Description: Comparison of healthcare costs for early retirees versus active workers in the same age band. When adjusted for age, there is not a significant difference in costs between each group.

Description: Article presents a summary of the AAA's Health Practice Council Activities including input for PPACA and various work groups.

Description: Full issue of the January 2014 Health Watch newsletter.

Description: Discussion that developing credibility factors for group health insurance can be accomplished empirically through the use of stochastic models with appropriate parameters and fairly readily obtainable data, without the need for unrealistic assumptions.

Description: Full issue of Health Watch, May 2014

Description: The article compares the financial features between Medicare Part D and the ACA exchanges. As highligted in the article, while the two programs share many similar features, the programs still have many different characteristics that make simple comparisons among the programs and their ultimate financial performance not appropriate.

Description: Regular section chair article

Description: Risk adjustment is used to adjust the revenue stream to health insurers that sell ACA eligible plans and Medicare Advantage plans. This article compares and contrasts these risk adjustment programs.

Description: An introduction to this edition of Health Watch, with specific highlights of the upcoming continuing education events designed to give busy health actuaries the information they need in a focused manner.

Description: How can actuaries tailor their work to a target audience? This article explores success stories and key considerations when preparing work for others.