ProSales Surveys

ProSales magazine and its e-mail cousin, ProSales Business Update, regularly survey readers regarding how they are handling some of the thorniest issues facing LBM executives today. Here are links to PDF summaries of results to recent online polls:

September 2009

Sales Reps

Nearly two-thirds of the roughly 185 dealers responding to a ProSales online poll cited cost, affordability or the rising price of premiums when asked to name their biggest concern regarding the state of health care coverage in America today. Just under one in six said their health insurance premiums climbed more than 15% this year, and a few dealers volunteered that they had stopped providing coverage. Nearly 64% of the dealers offer a traditional PPO [preferred provider organization] service. Half provide prescription coverage and dental care, and just over a quarter have vision care.
[Download PDF of survey results]

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