with explanations of the costs of those plans and the manner in which the costs were shared between the staff and the Organization. At the moment the Organization was paying around SO per cent of the total cost, and the staff as a whole was paying the remaining SO per cent although, as the two reports indicated, the level of contribution paid by each staff member varied. In response to the General Assembly's request in resolution 37/126, section III, paragraph 8, the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) had decided that the fifty-fifty cost-sharing formula should be replaced by a formula to be worked out using the methods described in paragraph 106 of its report to the General Assembly (A/38/30). 2. The Secretary-General had stated in his report that he would have preferred a straight formula applicable world wide, under which the Organization would pay two thirds of the cost of health insuraoce and the staff one third (see document A/C.S/38/16, para. 13), but the Advisory Committee stressed that if that formula had been adopted in prefereoce to ICSC's, the share of health insurance costs paid by the United Nations would have been lower in New York but higher in other duty stations. At the moment, therefore, the ICSC formula was less costly for the Organization as a whole than that envisaged by the Secretary-General. He pointed out that for the present the ICSC formula would apply only to New York, and reminded members that according to the Secretary-General's calculation the average of health insurance contributions by the staff as a percentage of their net remuneration was lower in other duty stations than in New York. In view of the foregoing, the Secretary-General had recommeooed the General Assembly to approve the ICSC formula and suggested that the new arrangement should take effect from 1 January 198 3. The 
**Analysis**
The text appears to discuss the cost-sharing formula for health insurance among the staff and the Organization, highlighting the differences between the proposed formulas and the current situation. The context suggests that it is related to the internal management of the Organization, specifically the United Nations.

**Category**
Health, Employment