Controlling Health Care Spending Growth

Explore issues pertaining to the drivers of health care costs and slowing the growth in health care spending.

Controlling Health Care Spending Growth

Controlling Health Care Spending Growth Resources

Comment / Letter

Comment Letter to House and Senate on Restricting Insurers’ Use of Genetic Information

Health Practice Council comment letter to members of the House and Senate on the actuarial implications of restricting insurers’ use of genetic information.
Date Published: 02/16/2007
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Comments on One-Role-per-User Rule for Medicare RDS Website

Health Practice Council comments that urge CMS to reconsider the one-role-per-user rule for actuaries for Part D attestations and to investigate alternatives that would not prevent actuaries from…
Date Published: 12/19/2006
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Comments on ACLI’s Proposed Long-Term Care Experience Form

Subgroup on Long-Term Care Experience Forms comments to the NAIC regarding American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) Proposed Recommendation to Report Non-Exempt LTC accelerated-type products.
Date Published: 11/17/2006
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Letter to Citizens’ Health Care Working Group on Interim Recommendations for Improving Health Care

Committee on Federal Health Issues letter to Citizens’ Health Care Working Group on its interim recommendations for improving health care.
Date Published: 08/24/2006
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Comment Letter on Medicare Supplement Transition Issues

Medicare Supplement Work Group comments to NAIC’s Medigap Modernization Subgroup of the Senior Issues Task Force identifying potential transitional issues that will need to be addressed as part of…
Date Published: 08/17/2006
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Letters to FASB on Proposed Changes in Financial Accounting Standards

Joint Committee on Retiree Health letters to FASB expressing concern over proposed changes in financial accounting standards for pensions and OPEBs.
Date Published: 05/31/2006
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Analysis of Senate Small-Business Health Insurance Legislation

Small-Group Market Task Force comment letter on S. 1955, the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2006.
Date Published: 05/04/2006
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Comments on Proposed GASB Bulletin on Medicare Part D Retiree Drug Subsidy

Joint Committee on Retiree Health comments on the proposed GASB technical bulletin, Accounting and Financial Reporting by Employers and OPEB Plans for Payments from the Federal Government Pursuant…
Date Published: 04/17/2006
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Letter to NAIC on Proposed Revisions to LTC Experience Reporting Instructions

Subgroup on LTC Experience Forms letter that addresses several issues raised by the NAIC in response to the Academy’s Long-Term Care Experience Subgroup’s May 20, 2005 letter with proposed…
Date Published: 08/18/2005
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Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee on HR 2355

Federal Health Committee letter in response to HR 2355, the Health Care Choice Act of 2005, which contained language that would allow a non-actuary to offer statements of opinions on reserves. The…
Date Published: 07/19/2005
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