Academy comments on the proposal developed and approved on a preliminary basis by the NAIC’s Speed to Market Working Group that pertain to the definitions of “minimum experience and education requirements” for actuaries contained in the preface to the proposal. (
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Task Force on HORBC comments that offer a counterproposal regarding the redesign of the Property & Equipment page. The counterproposal would achieve the objectives of attaining compliance with the new Health blank and reducing the amount of data collected, and it would leave the NAIC working group flexibility to make a change to the HCDA risk factor in 2001. (
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Medicare Reform Task Force letter to Senate about the debate around changes to the Medicare program, including proposals to provide prescription drug coverage to seniors. (
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Health Insurance Rate Filing Task Force letter request for NAIC assistance in narrowing the scope of the Academy's Health Insurance Rate Filing Task Force work on developing guidelines for filing health insurance rates with state regulatory agencies. (
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Health Practice Council letter to National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare in response to the questions the commission raised regarding possible changes to the current Medicare benefit structure as well as modifications to the coverage requirements for Medicare supplement insurance. (
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Association Health Plan Work Group comments on the “Health Coverage for Employees of Small Businesses” provisions in Title I (Subtitle D) of the Patient Protection Act of 1998 (H.R. 4250). (
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Health Codification Subgroup of the State Health Committee comments to NAIC on the exposure of health related Statements of Statutory Accounting Principles (SSAPs), specifically to the March 25, 1998 exposure of seven modified SSAPs and one new SSAP. (
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