[727374]

Sounds to me like he's blaming the babies or else he could have left them out of it and said something like 'exceptional events'.

[bilbo0s]

That's EXACTLY what he should have done.

He should have said, "The cost of our medical benefits package was higher than expected." FULL STOP.

I can't, for the life of me, see how anyone could possibly think what that man did was appropriate.