Data shows that while
participants in larger plans clearly benefit from scale, some small plans managed to pay significantly less in costs
than others: costs for plans in the $ 1 million to $ 10 million segment ranged widely, from 68 basis
points to 153 basis
points.
You can
point the finger at all sorts of
participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more
than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and
other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that
point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.