In addition, more than a third of employers surveyed said they would consider either charging more for dependent coverage in general or changing their coverage structure from simple "individual" and "family" designations to rate tiers that vary the premium based on the number of people that participate in the plan.
This table demonstrates which diagnostic criterion is met for each patient in the CBS cohort, final diagnostic variant designation, confidence rating, and PIB-PET status.
One thing is clear: Gaining a government designation as a rating agency is like getting a winning lottery ticket.
In a note to investors, the Goldman analyst wrote, "We are removing the Not Rated designation from Yahoo shares after Yahoo rejected a raised $33/share bid by Microsoft and Microsoft withdrew its bid".
A fundamental concept conveyed in this definition, is that the human rated designation is applied to a space system.
My letter to the SEC cited this financial innovation as an example of why the special NRSRO designation of the rating agencies should be revoked.
And I wrote them a letter and said that the nationally recognized statistical rating organization designation, the NRSRO designation for structured products for the rating agencies, should be revoked, because they were not even adhering to sound statistical principles.
It has the advantages of simple designation, having reasonable convergence rate and stability.
"The rating agencies do not merit the [Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization] designation," or the government stamp that makes ratings a centerpiece of the regulatory structure, Tavakoli says.
One possible outcome is that others will be given the Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations designation; another is that the designation could be eliminated entirely, leaving the market to decide whose credit analyses are good and whose are not.
