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...American companies are facing enormous costs for healthcare - roughly $9,552 per employee in 2009, according to a recent survey by Towers Perrin. That's up 6% over 2008 outlays and will be the fifth consecutive year of single digit percentage increases (prior to that there were five consecutive years of double-digit percentage increases.) (See the five truths about health care in America...
...While wellness is an admirable goal, the more likely path for both industry and government - both under siege - is tighter allocation of healthcare benefits. In the Towers Perrin survey, for example, many companies report that they are taking steps to tighten provisions on their prescription drug plans, increase employee cost sharing, and tighten or increase enforcement of dependent-eligibility provisions. Employee wellness is on the program too, but it's part of a comprehensive effort that includes some not-so-gentle tweaks to the system...
...worth pointing out that this difference was within the survey's margin of error. That is, the decline could just be noise. But other news in the report - and evidence from other sources - points to a consumer-spending trend that is at best flat. Retail sales excluding automobiles, a better indicator of the underlying trend, were down 0.5%. March's overall sales decline was revised down to 1.3% from 1.2%. And so on. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...option to respond, lends itself to a self-selection bias. Only the students interested in answering the email, and if so, the specific questions presented in the poll, would participate in the exercise. Therefore, since there is a clear and significant difference between the population that selected into the survey and that which did not, any claim that the views of the 26 percent of Harvard students who responded to the poll are representative of the opinions of the 74 percent who did not is groundless...
...still claims that its poll demonstrates that “student opinion” is “at odds with Faculty opinion” on the ROTC question. This is certainly not the case when the poll in question is sent out online, offers a narrow range of survey choices, and gathers responses from only a quarter of the student body...