Description: A divisive confrontation over health care pricing is almost inevitable over the next few years. What will ultimately happen is a political decision, not an actuarial one—but it will have major consequences for the trend in health care costs and the divergence between public and private insurance premiums.

Description: Excel file supporting weather extremes report.

Description: Exhibits to accompany Actuarial Weather Extremes: December 2020

Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of January 2020.

Description: The data in this Excel workbook is intellectual property owned by University of California, Berkeley with a license granted to the Society of Actuaries. The Society of Actuaries makes this data available to the public. The Society of Actuaries makes no representation or warranty to the accuracy of the information and assumes no liability in connection with the use or misuse of this data.

Description: Supporting excel file for June 2021 weather extremes.

Description: A document summarizing key observations and the process used to develop the rates, along with a table of the rates themselves.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Pension Section and Health Section Research teams commissioned Professor Thomas E. Getzen of Temple University to construct a resource model for the projection of long term healthcare cost trends. The motivation for creation of the model was driven by its potential usage as a resource for the estimation of reportable liabilities for retiree healthcare benefits as specified under FAS 106 and GASB 45 accounting statements. This model, programmed in Microsoft Excel [xlsx format], projects per-person expenditures and growth rates through 2099 using a set of equations and assumptions developed by Professor Getzen with assistance from the Society of Actuaries Project Oversight Group appointed to oversee the effort. The model includes baseline assumptions as well as flexibility for user–inputted alternative assumptions.