However, I can assure you 100% (and I challenge anyone to provide factual data to contrary) that the ACA has significantly impacted the cost and our ability to cover our employees in group heath care insurance.
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Greater production efficiencies and higher production volumes led to lower cost, enabling some ability to lower prices but the ability of the industry to sustain unit growth as well as storage capacity growth to match the needs of content hungry users and protect itself from competing technologies is threatened by the relentless drop in HDD ASPs.
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The current low cost of natural gas in North America translates into the ability for microgrids to provide lower cost energy services than the incumbent utility grid.
"There's no question cost has impacted on our ability to invest in dependability, " he said.
Apple offered a low-cost distribution channel and the ability to reach a broadened audience.
The ability to reallocate cost savings to first-order priorities makes corporations more nimble.
Would this bill help people in this situation, who find themselves with a mortgage who's cost has escalated beyond their ability to pay?
"The marine renewables industry must demonstrate its ability to be cost-competitive, compared with other low-carbon technologies, in the next 5-8 years if it is to engage commercial investors, " he said.
And one of the things that shareholders and bondholders want to know is if state regulators will allow cost recovery, or the ability to pass through those expenses to their customers.
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The traditional enterprise and client compute markets will continue to demand high capacity storage solutions and will be best served by hard disk drives, where manufacturers compete on the ability to deliver cost effective, reliable and energy efficient mass storage devices.
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Because of their low cost structure, tax efficiency and ability to access hard-to-reach areas of the market, investors have taken a strong liking to these vehicles.
Medicaid has created a class of medical consumers that do not have either the incentive or ability to consider the cost of the services they consume.
Similarly, advertising faces some of the same pressures from the amafessionals, as low-cost programs give consumers an increasing ability to turn out professional-looking material at costs a fraction of what they were.
Though health insurance companies worry about their ability to control the cost of new customers, they are expected to aggressively push outpatient care and low-cost prescription drugs as a way to keep premiums low.
In addition, satellite TV providers like DirecTV and Dish Network continue to lag the cable TV companies in their ability to offset program cost increases by selling their customers increasingly faster broadband services, per The Wall Street Journal.
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The parliament's chief executive, Paul Grice, rejected a number of the critical conclusions in the report, including those on cost management, responsibility for programming, the process of reporting cost increases to MSPs and the ability of project managers to cap consultants' fees.
The ability to measure enables more cost-effective investments and more substantial cost reductions.
Instead, profit is driven by our ability to manage operations as cost-effectively as possible and by investing in maintaining our infrastructure.
The more flexible IT is in terms of cost structure and in terms of the ability to adopt new technologies, the more successful it will be.
"Very few banks have the ability to determine whether the cost basis provided by a client has been correctly adjusted in the past, " assert the bankers in their comments.
Plans to get more fans in the stadium include free WiFi, plus mobile apps (those may cost) with game highlights and the ability to listen in on the sound from field level.
The first regards our collective ability to widely implement practical, cost-effective mechanisms for determining what solutions, approaches, and practices actually work best.
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The exponential growth of data has specifically affected the legal profession, where the amount of data being produced is outpacing the ability of humans and technology to cost-effectively manage and review it.
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Skyfire's innovative, next-generation carrier cloud approach to mobile video and data optimization provides wireless operators with huge cost savings, elastic capacity, and the ability to surgically enhance quality of experience on a per-stream level.
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Delta's ability to get pilots onboard its cost program, while managing to bring in non-union workers in every capacity except the dispatcher group, is a big part of why costs are mostly under control, says industry consultant Michael Boyd of the Boyd Consulting.
This argument has some merit, mainly because price pressure clearly comes from the ability to ship steel from low-cost developing countries to more mature economies.
These companies realize that when fuel is the centerpiece of financial viability, their ability to buy fuel at the lowest cost possible is imperative to a winning strategy.
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As a bonus, cloud computing offers defense and intelligence agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their lifecycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
As a bonus, cloud computing offers DoD and Intelligence Community agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their life-cycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
The large increase in offers provided by small businesses is driven primarily by two factors: greater demand for coverage by workers due to individual penalties for being uninsured and the avail-ability of new, often lower-cost insurance options (because of administrative savings, for example) for small businesses that offer coverage on the exchanges.
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