Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest newsletter discussing reform of the U.S. health care system.

Description: This article discusses the potential characteristics of health care reform and the associated impact on small insurance companies.

Description: An overview of health care history and privatization developments in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil.

Description: This session is about supplemental and specialty health products in Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia. It also includes a discussion on health care reform for individual health and long-term care products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This session is about the impact of health-care reform on supplemental health insurance plans such as Medicare Supplement, Hospital, Cancer, etc. The session will also explore new opportunities for supplementary markets and products. Included is a discussion of the CHAMPUS and FEHBP. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest discussing the need for actuarial leadership in the reform of the U.S. health care system.

Description: Remarks on the attitudes underlying the stalling of health care reform legislation.

Description: This article discusses health care reform in Kentucky. In 1994, Kentucky implemented health care reform measures inspired by the unsuccessful attempt at national health care reform in the Health Security Act of 1993. The measures adopted in Kentucky are described by the author as 'a textbook case of how not to engage in health care reform.' From: The Actuary, April 2000 – volume 34 - Issue 4.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion is about delivering adequate universal health coverage. The panelists discuss the Canadian national health care system, Oregon's plan to seek a Medicaid waiver to implement a new format within which health care will be reimbursed, and the American Medical Association's [AMA's] Health Access America reform proposal. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4A.

Description: The healthcare industry is in the middle of extraordinary times. This article outlines the many forces driving this transformation, as well as various obstacles. This has both personal and business implications to health actuaries.