An equation used to determine how big a Valentine's present you should buy your significant other. Outside of romance, it's way to figure out profitability in the health insurance sector.
The benefit expense ratio consists of a comparison between the amount the health insurer pays for health services and the amount it makes from premiums paid. It takes into account what the insurer pays for the benefits clients receive, and compares it the revenue it brings in from the policies. Hopefully for the insurers, it consistently brings in more cash than it pays out in benefits.
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Finance a la shmoop.. what is a beneficiary? well in Latin, bene is
good so this is like a good place to catch fish...well close not [Old man fishing in the ocean]
really but being a beneficiary is good it means you get stuff like if you are
the beneficiary of weird uncle Al's will then you get his odd collection of hair
balls shaped like US presidents and thirty two thousand two hundred sixty [Uncle Al's will appears]
$9.32... in essence then you are the beneficiary of his will you are the one
set up to benefit by the death of someone who wanted to favor you with
their assets when they had you know passed on to the great beyond where hair [Uncle Al with white wings in heaven]
balls will fall....
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