That is despite the highrateof youth unemployment and the staggering costsof university, which might discourage young women from looking for a job or seeking higher education.
Add to that a high crime rate, minimal cultural life, relatively high business costs for the area and a loss of critical wage-earning residents ages 25 to 44--and you end up being ranked 144 out of 150 among our Best Places.
Medicare started paying for IMRT in 2002, setting its reimbursement rate for the procedure high to take into account the costsof the technology and the added personnel required to administer it.
Even when repayment rates are high, a microfinance institution may charge an interest rate too low to cover its overall costs or its costsof funds, thus making it more of a charity than a commercial enterprise.
The California Department of Insurance found that the proposed rate increase was based on unreasonably high assumptions about the rate at which medical costs are increasing.