Dea Kelly of Shaw Industries Group, a flooring firm, says that intense competition has prevented it from passing on the hike in polypropylene costs.

肖氏工业集团（一家地板公司）认为激烈的竞争阻碍了其转嫁聚丙烯上涨的成本。

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Passing through seaports can be expensive, accounting for a big chunk of goods' wholesale costs.

船只穿越海港的花费占货物批发成本中的很大一部分，代价高昂。

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But it is not at all clear that the board would in fact be able to find savings of the magnitude Mr Obama envisions without reducing the quality of care or passing more costs along to patients.

但是事实上委员会能否在不影响医疗质量，不把医疗费用转嫁给病人的前提下，实现奥巴马先生设想的医疗费用节约数额，还有待考证。

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We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations. With each passing year, health care costs consume a larger share of our nation's spending, and contribute to yawning deficits that we cannot control,".

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It avoids solely being in the uncomfortable position of passing those costs onto customers.

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"We continue to have concerns that the ultimate outcome of this legislation would be the passing of merchant acceptance costs to consumers at a time when Americans can least afford it, " said Noah Hanft, general counsel at MasterCard.

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That would put large money managers like mutual funds on the hook to make investment decisions that would directly benefit their fundholders instead of passing along costs that only build their asset base and increase their fee income.

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