In his book, Mr Sen raised the theoretical possibility that a pastoralist's supply curve might actually bend back on itself: as the relative price of livestock falls, a hungry pastoralist might supply more animals to the market, not fewer as elementary economic principles would imply.
To truly bend the curve over the longer term, we need a more strategic view.
Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil claims we are living in the knee of the curve: the sharp bend upward.
The bottom line is that no one knows for sure if health reform will "bend the curve" of increasing medical spending.
What I'm trying to do is figure out how do we bend the curve of costs so that we're getting more and more efficient care, higher-quality care, at less cost per person?
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Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.
We have a lot of hope that those things can bend the cost curve.
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The Affordable Care Act put very important provisions in place to help us to start to bend the cost curve.
You pledged, A, that you would bend the cost curve, and B, that you Democrats would be able to campaign on this.
The process that Cowen describes would produce a gradual bend in the curve of progress, not the sudden change in slope that actually occurred.
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Informed by these historic curves, we can then ask ourselves the key question at the heart of venture capital going forward: how do we bend this distribution curve?
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This is a change from the more abstract arguments he used last year: how a health care overhaul would bend the cost curve and help the federal budget.
So it is very important, I think, for us to take steps both legislatively but also in the private sector to improve prevention, improve wellness, bend the cost curve.
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The notion that somehow what the President had previously been doing to bend the cost curve, to extend the life of Medicare, is somehow missing from today's debate on the budget, it's hard for me to process, Keith.
While we can expect the Obamacare bashers to pour cold water on this good news, there is no denying that the law is paying some dividends in the critically important effort to bend the cost curve in healthcare delivery.
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And all of you put extraordinary work last year into making serious changes that would not only reform the insurance industry, not only cover 30 million Americans, but would also bend the cost curve, and save a trillion dollars on our deficits, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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So I think we're continuing -- the President is pleased that we're continuing to make progress on a bill that would make health care more affordable for people that have it, provide increased accessibility for those that don't, provide some important insurance reforms, as well as bend the cost curve and chance the deficit over the next 10 years.
It is hardly shocking that the results would be so deeply depressing when contemplating a circumstance where every item designed to bend the cost curve in healthcare, as set out in the Affordable Care Act, turns out to be an abject failure particularly when coupled with the assumption that Congress will end each and every tax that is designed to fund the law.
Putting aside the spiritual benefits of supplication, a more pressing secular question might be phrased this way: Can strong prayer bend the medical cost curve?
These are unsecured debt issues that also bend the risk-return curve.
Medicines to delay the onset of the disease, slow its progression and, yes, prevent it, can bend the federal health care cost curve downward.
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Until now, the collection of factors cited as bringing on the angst have included societal and economic pressures that exert psychological forces strong enough to bend our lives into the famous U-shaped curve of happiness.
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