Believe it or not there are many health plan administrative costs that help reduce cost (e.g. disease management, provider contracting) that improve the rates you and I pay.

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Another source of help: Publisher cch just put out a how-to book on the subject: Practical Guide to Cost Segregation, by Paul G.

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The Clean Water and Clean Air Acts each cost about one per cent of G.

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The recent crisis cost about ten per cent of G.

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Entitlements need to be converted from open-ended obligations with terrible incentives to fixed-cost, predictable obligations, e.g.

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Determine the cost of your various financial goals (e.g. college for your children, if you have them, your retirement living expenses, etc) and help you decide when you can afford to retire.

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Right now, generic companies are competing primarily on cost, yet one can imagine that by bundling the appropriate companion technologies to their products (e.g. technologies that improve and document adherence), they might conceivably be in a position to make more aggressive efficacy claims, to demonstrate to stakeholders that they are delivering greater value, and ultimately command somewhat higher pricing, yet still below the cost of new, branded products.

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