It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Yes, there are less expensive plans, but they don't offer comparable coverage to the union's plan.
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When you compare 1.3 for a levee safety factor with another safety factor that may be used in a different type structure, you don't always have an apples-to-apples comparison.
There's no way to know based on that release how it stacks up against anything, which is I'm sure why they put it out the way they did and refuse to break out any numbers for DVD versus videogame, or U.S. Sales versus selected international territories, ... That leaves no possible way to create an apples-to-apples comparison.
Making the right purchasing decision involves factoring in a mix of cost and quality measures--but there are no standardized data sets on network costs that allow us to make apples-to-apples comparisons. These new HEDIS measures are a strong step in the right direction.
The high level, from our perspective, is that it's hard to make any sort of apples-to-apples comparison. But we believe our process works and we are the safest browser around.
That's not an apples-to-apples comparison because some states include facilities in their per-pupil expenditures some include textbooks some don't. So there's no way of getting an adequate comparison.