News from the Health Section

September 2015

April Choi, Chair

The IAAHS has been extremely active over the last few months, organizing webcasts, working on its virtual library, and planning the next colloquium.

The IAAHS virtual library website was officially launched in June to IAAHS members. It has over 146 newly coded items under an updated website with many added features. Please see the IAAHS website!

On June 16, the IAAHS held a webcast on Extension of Health Insurance to Cover Pre-existing Conditions—the Experience of Hong Kong, India and Singapore. The presentations were informative and insightful. Lawrence Tsui, ZheeChong Koh, and Stuart Rodger addressed issues and considerations related to guaranteed acceptance, guaranteed renewability, and providing coverage for pre-existing conditions, in the national health insurance systems of the above countries respectively.

On September 3, the IAAHS held the third in a series of joint webcasts with the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA) on Exploring Global Health Care Cost Drivers, where Stuart Rodger and Candice Ming presented Australia, and Alvin Fu presented Singapore. It was an excellent webcast where the presenters discussed the drivers and the methods of coping with the health care costs, for their respective countries. Slides and the recording can be found here. As a reminder to IAAHS members, all previous webcasts are available for replay at the IAAHS website—just sign in as an IAAHS member.

Additional webcast on the same topic will be held on November 4, with John Have and Jonathan Callund presenting on Canada and Chile respectively.

A call for papers announcement has been sent to all the Section members for the June 2016 Joint Colloquium, jointly hosted by IPEBLA, IACA, PBSS, and IAAHS. Interested parties are requested to submit an abstract of the paper or presentation by email to stjohns2016@actuaries.org by October 1, 2015.

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