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Old 05-25-2011, 04:00 PM   #1
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The fact that the statistic is in "employees" rather than "plans" looks cherry-picked to me. Employees don't get waivers, employers do.
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Old 05-25-2011, 08:06 PM   #2
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The fact that the statistic is in "employees" rather than "plans" looks cherry-picked to me. Employees don't get waivers, employers do.
Doesn't it make more sense to speak of the number of people affected rather than the number of employees?
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Old 05-26-2011, 12:35 PM   #3
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Doesn't it make more sense to speak of the number of people affected rather than the number of employers?
Sometimes, but the accusation seems to be directed at the organizations or the administration for supposedly favoring friendly organizations, and then suddenly switches over to employees when it gets to statistics.

Maybe it's justified, but there's precious little hard info in the article, and the switch from talking about organiztions to employees when justifying their accusations of bias raises a red flag to me.
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