Description: An overview of the issues behind reimbursing providers on a bundled or packaged basis. The article presents the potential advantages offered by the proponents as well as the criticisms and obstacles to implementing this type of payment system.

Description: This article provides an overview of the financial results of managed care plans over time using a collection of the NAIC financial statements.

Description: Feature article discussing the high cost of prescription medicines in Canada.

Description: This paper provides an overview of the employee benefit package, provides data and discusses issues with regard to cost variation, and shows how this data can be combined to provide an understanding of the variation for different employee benefit packages.

Description: Article from the Pension Section News, June 2000, on the simple logic of health care inflation. This article is reprinted with permission and ran in the April 2000 issue of Health Section News.

Description: Discussion of how actuarial input is needed to ensure fair regulations with regards to Genetic Testing. Issue No. 45.

Description: An interview with Dawn Helwig on developments in the Long Term Care market.

Description: New research shows that we often make sub-optimal choices, when selecting a health insurance plan, that lead to unnecessary out-of-pocket expenditu

Description: This article from major US payers describes palliative care as a scaleable means of improving quality and reducing costs during serious and complex illness.

Description: Evaluation of Taiwan's National Health insurance program and a discussion of a managed competition model to reform it.