Regional development agencies, binding neighbours together into administrative units, are another incentive to think a little more widely.

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Most MLPs pay a general partner for administrative services, plus an incentive fee that escalates as a percentage of earnings as the dividend rises.

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One potential perverse effect of the law, says medical-cost analysts Milliman, is that insurers might have less incentive to drive down reimbursement rates to hospitals and doctors because that might push their administrative expenses above the ObamaCare cap of 15% of total costs.

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