Description: This article notes the available pulications from Hank George, an underwriting expert, that will help keep you up to date on the subject.

Description: There is a big wave of changes coming to the pharmacy market. The extent is not yet fully known, but there are trends we can follow that help us predict. Biosimilar uptake is key to driving savings, but it can take a while to ramp up. Biosimilars bring competition, and this coming wave will bring unprecedented Biosimilar competition.

Description: Moral issues behind paying for a transplant. Issue No. 46.

Description: SOA interview with David Axene

Description: Small companies face numerous challenges and opportunities when developing supplemental health insurance products. This is particularly true because of the competitive nature of these products and the innovations happening in the supplemental health market. This article explores the challenges regarding rating, the volatile regulatory environment, product flexibility, and distribution. In addition, the article identifies competitive advantages that small companies may have in the supplemental health market.

Description: This article discusses the expansion of benefits supporting long-term care services in Medicare Advantage plans

Description: A discussion of the issues to be considered for computing tax reserves relating to guaranteed renewable and noncancellable health insurance and how these concerns are sometimes overlooked.

Description: This article provides an overview of behavioral economic theory as it relates to health and welfare insurance plans and provides summaries of two sample applications of the theories: enrollment in health insurance exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and product design considerations in light of vast health illiteracy.

Description: The article offers a discussion about future products, distribution, insurance laws, and contracts. Some ideas might not be possible today, but it is offered as food for thought.

Description: Read the October 2019 issue of Health Watch, published by the Health Section. Practical information for actuaries, articles impact sections, section activities. This is the first digital-only issue of the newsletter.