Description: This article discusses new opportunities for states to waive certain marketplace requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The article focuses on specific opportunities for states and the role that actuaries will play.

Description: This article is an interview with an actuarial leader.

Description: There are early indications of a six year cycle in ACA markets reminiscent of the traditional underwriting cycle.

Description: Editor letter detailing article and encouraging authorship.

Description: The article describes the insurance industry's preparation for pandemic events and the public finance response.

Description: This article provides a detailed description of the unbalanced subsidy provisions in the Affordable Care Act with easy to follow numerical illustrations. An understanding of the illustrative calculations is necessary to understand the subsidy implications. The article highlights some surprising and likely unintended results that will be interest to issuers, employers, consumers, regulators and policymakers. Actuaries can add expertise to their clients and to the public discussion with a proper understanding of the subsidy calculations and the resulting implications.

Description: This article is focused on sustainability concerns in the ACA individual markets and what we can learn from core actuarial principles as discussed in ASOPs.

Description: Section member Greg Fann writes about his mid-career personal and professional reflections, paralleling the actuarial life experience with oceanic travel through the lyrics of the Jimmy Buffet ballad “A Pirate Looks at 40”.

Description: This article discusses the risk mix related mathematical rationale for national average ACA premium rates dropping for the first time in 2019.

Description: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law March 23, 2010. The transformative health care legislation was multi-faceted, but its primary purpose was to reduce the number of uninsured Americans. In alignment with the SOA’s Strategic Plan objective to “inform the public’s understanding of key societal issues”, this report examines the various publications reporting on the uninsured rate which stakeholders frequently access to measure policy efficacy and inform future policy considerations.