This combined with strong cost controls allowed us to significantly exceed expectations for operating margins.
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But cost controls kick in over those years and bring it down to 1 percent.
It urged cost controls such as a payroll tax on rich clubs to finance poorer ones.
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Here's what Karen and I wrote recently about cost controls called for in the law.
The president has called for cost controls above all else in health care reform.
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Now, a lot of the earnings are coming from temporary gains--like a good allergy season--and cost controls.
That freedom has led to criticism that the counsels were not accountable to any oversight or cost controls.
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Operating margin on home sales improved 440 basis points to 11.2%, driven by tight cost controls and price increases.
Chief executive John Coleman said profit margins had improved thanks to a combination of fewer discounted sales and cost controls.
Profits would be close to the top end of this range due to better-than-expected cost controls and margins, it added.
Thanks mainly to low overhead, tight cost controls and mass production, the company was able to keep Serum's vaccines priced lower than its competitors'.
When Obama pushed his health care law through Congress, he felt the need to abandon hugely important measures that would have imposed tough cost controls.
He will work shoulder-to-shoulder with Reses in cost controls and rationalization.
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But I think that our system has its priorities confused and is so imbalanced that only a complete overhaul with legislated cost controls will help it.
We expect United Continental to sustain its momentum from previous quarters through its capacity management efforts, fare hikes implemented during Q3, cost controls and integration benefits.
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Cost controls need to be strengthened, by enhancing the market power of insurers as against providers: the insurance exchanges should be national, not state by state.
No matter what you think of the long-term debt issue, Newtown cannot and should not be leveraged to promote policy choices like Medicare cost controls or tax reforms.
Everyone understands his goals: maintaining both quality and cost controls.
The real issue for Chief Executive Carol Bartz, however, is whether her competence with numbers and cost controls can be complemented with articulating her strategy for the company--and succeeding with it.
Some politicians are talking about government cost controls.
Think of the efficiencies in hospital supply chains, the delivery of prescription drugs, the processing of billing and insurance claims, reductions in fraud, and the application of best practices for cost controls.
At the heart of the issue is whether a health system that once had few cost controls is now being driven by too many, in some cases to keep shareholders happy with fat profits.
You know where we will go: Cost controls.
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The law will experiment with cost controls that economists and health policy experts think could curb spending, but there's little certainty and a lot of politics likely to interfere while reform is being implemented and tweaked.
While revenue growth was low in Q3 2012, CBS did demonstrate significant growth in its profits driven by cost controls and increasing contribution of high margin revenue streams such as digital licensing and re-transmission fee.
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It proposed capping discretionary spending, the sort that needs annual authorisation, raising Social Security taxes and limiting benefits, imposing a raft of cost controls on federal health care programmes, and eliminating tax breaks while lowering tax rates.
As we move forward on health care reform, it is not sufficient for us simply to add more people to Medicare or Medicaid to increase the rolls, to increase coverage in the absence of cost controls and reform.
Well, that and cost-controls and cutting nearly 30, 000 jobs.
Perhaps the most significant technology issue will be integrating these new technologies into the enterprise environment, while maintaining cost and other controls.
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