Health
The Academy Health Practice Council (HPC) is dedicated to providing policymakers and regulators with insights to navigate the complex landscape of health insurance and healthcare affordability.
The HPC’s commitment to objectivity and precision in this vital sector helps shape and inform decisions that impact the lives of millions of Americans every day.
Controlling Health Care Spending Growth
Explore issues pertaining to the drivers of health care costs and slowing the growth in health care spending.
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Financial Reporting, Risk Management and Solvency
Financial reporting and solvency issues at the state level, such as NAIC related projects on RBC, as well as emerging international solvency issues and federal regulation of insurance companies.
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Health Reform & ACA Implementation
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and other health care reform issues.
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Long-Term Care
Federal and state long-term care issues, including the CLASS Act and LTC pricing/valuation.
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Medicare/Medicaid
Ideas for improving Medicare’s financial stability and insights on Medicaid and CHIP programs.
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Issue Brief
Medicare’s Financial Condition: Beyond Actuarial Balance (2008)
care Steering Committee updated annual issue brief offering an actuarial perspective on Medicare’s financial condition.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Medicare’s Financial Condition: Beyond Actuarial Balance (2007)
care Steering Committee annual issue brief offering an actuarial perspective on Medicare’s financial condition.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Wading Through Medical Insurance Pools: A Primer
Small Group Market Task Force issue brief describing the types of medical insurance pools, highlighting issues that are fundamental to pooling, and illustrating how changes within a multiple…
Issue Brief
Health Coverage Issues: The Uninsured and the Insured
Uninsured Subgroup updated 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…
Issue Brief
Pay for Performance: Rewarding Improvements in the Quality of Health Care
Health Care Quality Work Group issue brief exploring definitions and measures of health care quality and examining the pay for performance approach to rewarding improvements in quality, particularly…
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Medicare: Next Steps
Senior Health Fellow issue brief outlining areas in which action, beyond the addition of the Medicare Part D program, could be taken to reform the Medicare program, including addressing long- term…
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Medicare Modernization Act: Financial Issues for State Medicaid Programs
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.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Applying the Defined Contribution Concept to Medicare: A Primer
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…
Issue Brief
Statement Regarding 2002 Medicare Trustees Report
Academy statement offering an actuarial perspective on Medicare’s financial condition.
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
Issue Brief
Risk Classification in Voluntary Individual Disability Income and Long-Term Care Insurance
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…
Topics: Long-Term Care