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From: schuldy@zariski.harvard.edu (Mark Schuldenfrei)
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Subject: Re: autocrat's pledge
To: jcross@world.std.com (John A Cross)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 16:06:58 -0500 (EST)
Cc: carolingia@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9403141554.A4720-0100000@world.std.com> from "John A Cross" at Mar 14, 94 03:39:40 pm
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  The numbers that Yevsha quated (2500 per year, plus 200 per event) seem
  a little bit high to me. I wonder if we couldn't get it a lot cheaper
  somewhere else.

Those numbers are consistent with others I have heard.  There is, in fact, a
tremendous margin of savings when one buys insurance as a group.  The
economy of scale is quite remarkable.

Your figures for insurance are also slightly inaccurate.  For the insurance
purchased in April 1993, the costs were around 40,000 per year.  For April
1994, this will be around 60,000 or a little less. That's $1.74 versus $2.61
for the two years.
  
Best of luck on your bline-blini-blini recovery.

	Tibor