Merck & Co. Inc. | 2013 | FY | 3


A one percentage point change in the health care cost trend rate would have had the following effects:
 
One Percentage Point
  
Increase
 
Decrease
Effect on total service and interest cost components
$
38

 
$
(30
)
Effect on benefit obligation
316

 
(262
)

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