Description: Discusses the projected costs of social insurance programs in the U.S. and Canada, the experience of the British National Health Service on controlling costs versus providing quality service, the economic consequences of the projected high costs of social insurance and of the projected build-up and spend-down of the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance [OASDI] Trust Funds, and possible solutions to the financing of these programs. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Topics include rising minimum funding in the face of fixed contractual contribution rates improving the lines of communication between professional advisers, the board of trustees and the fund administrator and late-breaking developments related to multi-employer plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 86pd.