Description: HR Magazine article quoting Jim Glickman talking about long-term care. Discusses increasing popularity of long term care as an employee benefit and discusses carrier and plan selection.

Description: Ian Duncan argues that there is no crisis in American health care.

Description: This article describes how Long-Term Care riders attached to Life Insurance policies provide real insurance value at a reasonable cost and allow life insurance companies to compete on a basis other than cost.

Description: Panelists provide an overview of long-term-care insurance. They present basic information relating to how the product works, unique pricing and risk considerations, marketing, and reserve and capital requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1, Session 48

Description: Panelists discuss emerging valuation-actuary-related issues, including: [1] for long-term-care insurance [LTCI], reserves, risk-based capital [RBC], and new experience forms, [2] for Medicare Part D, several potential future changes, and [3] for health insurance in general, the new Statement of Standard Accounting Practice 85 [SSAP 85] and existing SSAP 84, and current activities of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] regarding a definition of 'insurance.' Session 27PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

Description: Report on the second in a series of studies conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the SOA Long-Term Care Experience Committee. The study examines longterm care insurance LTCI industry persistency experience by reporting on changes in both voluntary lapse and total termination activity for all participating companies during calendar years 2002 through 2004. Overall, the results indicate that LTCI persistency continues to increase. However, recent increases have occurred on the group side of the business more than the individual side.

Description: This article explores the possibility of using innovations from the financial markets to reduce some portion of the LTC risk and thus encourage the growth of the product.

Description: Long Term Care Insurance Reserves and Reinsurance Balancing between statutory and GAAP requiements. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: Read the November 2020 issue of Long-Term Care News published by the Long-Term Care Insurance Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.