Letter by Tia Goss Sawhney

Attached is a letter that I wrote to America's Health Insurance Plans regarding research reports that they published in 2007 and 2005. AHIP is a national trade association representing 1,300 member health insurance companies. For reasons that I detail in the letter, I feel that the reports do not give our government leaders and members of the public the quality information that they need as we engage in healthcare debate.

Essay by Tia Goss Sawhney

This invited essay has been submitted to the Actuary of the Future Section of the Society of Actuaries for publication in the November "Actuary of the Future" newsletter. In this essay I express the concern that actuaries are losing control of the analysis of insurance risk and numbers to other professional disciplines, disciplines who have mastered technical skills that we have all but ignored, and that unless we upgrade our technical skills, our domain and employment prospects will steadily shrink.

Essay by Tia Goss Sawhney

This invited essay has been submitted to the Society of Actuaries for publication in the October issue of CompAct, the newsletter of the Technology Section. In this essay I invite actuaries to discuss why we are conspicuously absent from the software development vendor teams that serve the insurance industry.