Robert Pear recently wrote for the New York Times, saying how "actuaries normally toil far from the limelight, but their calculations are feeding a roaring national debate over insurance premiums and the Affordable Care Act."
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An actuary is a person who compiles and analyzes statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums. And in recent years, those premiums have been rising, feeding a heated national debate. Health plans around the country just filed proposed rates for 2017, and those rates are waiting for review by state insurance commissioners. But questions about the proposed increases abound.
Different sides of the political spectrum have different views on the matter, and with the Presidential election looming people are considering healthcare heavily in their voting decision. No matter which side you are on, the fact of the matter is that insurers are struggling to find the best ways of providing care to their new customers, and the only option for actuaries is to make their best guesses and wait to see how high insurance claim amounts actually rise.
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