As usual, the CX spin doctors are out in force. NC - I totally agree. CX has significantly failed to keep up with the real costs of everything from medical insurance to hotel allowances. The Right Choice scheme is woefully inadequate and no wonder more and more Doctors withdraw from the panel. It's just not worth their while or the hassle.
Indeed, medical costs have skyrocketted in the last few years. But the Right Choice increase has seriously failed to keep up. Also, more and more medications/items that are covered by the medical scheme are being dropped off the list of medications covered under Right Choice.
CX are smart. They rarely make large changes. They make a change here, a change there, and before you know it, the overall package is quite different to that which you started with when you joined. No prizes to guess who has benefited.
To put it in another way, the spending power of our package has significantly decreased over the last 10 years. The 'home-currency-dollar', the 'allowance-dollar', the 'medical-dollar', the 'lifestyle/productivity-dollar', the 'staff-travel-dollar' and the list goes on. Just about every facet of our package has taken a hit in one way or another. And the company (oops, sorry, Group) is openly making the best profits yet.