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...companies that have been able to keep their costs down could gain an advantage over rivals, since the disparity between those paying the highest price for health care and those paying the lowest is estimated at $3,000 per employee. For a firm of 10,000 workers, that's $30 million, a chunk of change that would have nearly any executive sweating his competitiveness...
Such savings from high-deductible plans, however, are most likely short lived. A study by benefits-consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide found no correlation between high-deductible plans and companies with the lowest health-care costs. And a Rand Corp. report last week showed that people with such coverage more often forgo necessary care--which generally leads to greater expense later...
...Angeles, one of the most diverse cities in the world, has the lowest level of trust in the United States, Putnam said. He attributed this to a “socio-psychological system overload,” a type of shock resulting from an influx of heterogeneous newcomers into a generally homogeneous society...
Although fares will jump substantially when the new fare structure is introduced in 2007, a ride on the T will still cost less than one on most other cities’ mass transit systems. Even after these increases, MBTA fares––currently among the lowest in the country—will still be at or below fare levels in other major and mid-sized cities including New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, and Pittsburgh...
...subway transfers will be included in the price of a subway ride, meaning that the cost to those who commute downtown and need to take a bus to get to a subway station will actually fall from $2.15 to $1.70. Many of Boston’s lowest-income residents fall in this category; these system users—far from being discriminated against by “transit racists”—will actually pay less for their daily commute starting next year. Additionally, the price of monthly and yearly bus/subway “combo passes?...