The big question of the segment was the possible benefit a debt-limit agreement that included reasonably big spending cuts without a hike in tax rates would have on the stock market.
However, heavier, less urgent and low value per pound shipments will increasingly shift towards the sea route as companies thrive to manage their total distribution costs efficiently, which would limit the growth in air freight segment.
When Indiana was designing its innovative Healthy Indiana program, which offers a segment of the Medicaid population a combination of subsidized health savings accounts and catastrophic coverage, overcoming this limit on co-pays was a big problem.