We began talking about the various proposals being touted in Washington to fix the cost problem.
Some suggest therefore it may now be a good time to fix the cost of a home loan.
But the fundamental market failure that Congress sought to fix was this cost-shifting from the uninsured to the privately insured.
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Insurance companies generally won't fix a car if repairs cost more than 65% of the value of the car.
TJX, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs all suffered serious breaches that were splashed across headlines and cost millions to fix.
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When mistakes are made overseas and a US-based brand receives subpar goods, it could be more cost effective to fix the mistakes on domestic shores.
The EFSF, now with more heft, is there to stop panic spreading beyond Greece and to give other countries access to credit at a bearable cost while they fix their finances.
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We do not treat the relationship like a low-cost way to fix bugs, but instead make sure our contractors are every bit as innovative, motivated, responsible, accountable, and mature as our development teams in the United States.
The judge said houses with defective wallboard basically have to be stripped to the studs to fix the problem, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per home.
Many experts, from Nouriel Roubini to Senator Schumer, have said that it will cost the government more than a trillion dollars to really fix the financial system.
There are alternatives, such as bed nets and prophylactic drugs, but limitations of cost, user acceptance and infrastructure mean that they offer no easy fix.
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On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ordered the civil servants in the CMS to depart from past practice and assume a congressional fix to the scheduled drastic cuts in Medicare doctor reimbursement rates when calculating the cost adjustment.
However, it seems like it is a multi-quarter and perhaps multi-year fix in Services (30% of revenues, 40% of profits) given prior cost-cutting moves have impeded growth.
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The question for management in such a fix is this: do we stick to printing and see if a combination of acquisitions, cost-cutting and prayer sees us through?
The cost to one client in particular I met with were actually staggering given the relatively simple fix that the broker could have employed just by owning the same investments in different accounts.
To fix chronic underfunding and speed drug approvals, Congress in 1992 passed a law forcing drug companies to pick up the cost of safety reviews via application fees for experimental medicines.
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