Medicaid Work Group issue brief identifying several provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 that may have an impact on state Medicaid budgets.
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Uninsured Subgroup issue brief providing insights on the fundamental questions facing policy-makers and health coverage sponsors, such as: What is health insurance coverage? What are ways to provide health care for the uninsured? What are the roles of individuals, employers, and government in health care financing? (
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Medicare Steering Committee issue brief providing a primer on two approaches to reforming Medicare - should it retain its current defined benefit approach (similar to that used by traditional retirement plans) or should it be changed to a defined contribution approach (similar to that used by 401(k) retirement plans)? (
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Defined Contribution Health Plan Work Group issue brief providing an overview of the defined contribution approach to health coverage. After a brief discussion of trends in health plan approaches and the factors contributing to the emergence of defined contribution health plans, the issue brief describes the characteristics and types of defined contribution health plans. (
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Executive summary of the issue brief on understanding defined contribution health plans. (
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Task Force on Genetic Testing Issues issue brief describing the nature of disability income and long-term care insurance and discussing, from the perspectives of both consumers and insurers, the implications of the newly emerging genetic technologies for these products. Strategies to effectively address this emerging dilemma of how best to respond to public concerns about the possible misuse of genetic information, while preserving the viability of the voluntary, individual disability income and long-term care insurance markets, are also explored. (
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Executive summary of the issue brief on the use of genetic information in disability income and long-term care insurance. (
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Academy statement offering an actuarial perspective on Medicare's financial condition. (
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Genetic Testing Issues Task Force issue brief seeking to help policymakers and the public better understand the risk classification process in the long-term care and individual disability income markets. (
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Federal Tax Incentives for Long-Term Care Insurance: Actuarial Issues and Public Policy Implications
Task Force on Long-Term Care issue brief discussing the actuarial and public policy implications of using federal tax incentives to encourage the purchase of private long-term care insurance. (
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