Academy Senior Health Fellow Cori Uccello encouraged regulators to strengthen the individual health insurance coverage mandate contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to limit adverse selection. She said this could be done by limiting participants' ability to jump plan levels during enrollment periods.

The staff of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said that independent experts from the Academy had confirmed its findings that companies that posted one-time, non-cash charges against earnings--resulting from a section of the new health care reform law that eliminates a tax deduction for providing retiree drug benefits--had acted properly and in accordance with accounting standards.

The Academy provided various life expectancy and longevity statistics for average 65-year-old males and females to show that retirees may live a lot longer than they expect and could potentially outlive retirement savings.

The Academy was cited as source of various life expectancy and longevity statistics for average 65-year-old males and females.

The Academy was mentioned for warning about possible adverse selection issues with Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act.

The Academy Medical Loss Ratio Regulation Work Group's letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners regarding the potential for disruption to the individual health insurance market resulting from new medical loss ratio requirements was discussed. The work group asked regulators to consider options for adjusting the medical loss ratio calculation method for individual market products.

An Academy white paper on systemic risk regulation was discussed and Academy Financial Regulatory Task Force Chairperson Jesse Schwartz was quoted from a related Academy news release. Schwartz said that a federal systemic risk regulator would be best-positioned to coordinate at a national level and across international lines to monitor and manage systemic risk.

The Academy was cited as the source of various life expectancy and longevity statistics for average 65-year-old males and females.

Academy board member Ron Gebhardtsbauer discussed different proposals to increase Social Security's retirement age, a reform option that the Academy has advocated should be included in any reform package.

The Academy's Senior Health Fellow Cori Uccello discussed the effects of bringing young people into the health care market -one of the most vital components of health care reform. She said that young people, on average, have lower medical spending costs and are a lower risk than older people. Uccello said that the new health care reform law brings in young people and that helps achieve a broad cross-section of risk and stabilizes the risk pool over time.