"You don't have the choice of buying coverage that isn't outlandishly expensive, " giving people an incentive to find lower cost health plans.
Only in that case will there be an incentive to weigh the cost against the benefit and make an informed decision regarding the trade-offs.
These organizations have a true financial incentive to reduce the cost of care, and their direct control of physicians allows them to orchestrate more cost-effective interventions.
The simplest way for the federal government to restrain Medicaid would be to end the current system of matching state spending and replace this with block grants, which would give the states an incentive to focus on cost-control.
If so, then both clubs will have greater incentive to be somewhat more cost-conscious.
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Airlines have little financial incentive to take into account the cost to passengers of, say, delays.
On top of that, they have a strong incentive to shop around because MBAs cost a fortune.
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.
By creating a financial incentive to increase the gap between cost of care and payments, ACOs may be accused of rationing care, even if payments are tied to quality of care, rather than quantity.
Raising the cost of labor raises the incentive for employers to find ways to use less labor.
If a surge in demand pushes the price of existing property above its replacement cost, developers have an incentive to build more.
Many provinces are suffering power shortages because producers have little incentive to generate electricity given the high cost of coal and the low state-mandated electricity price.
Then they have a real incentive to go out shopping for lower-cost coverage, and the industry and insurers have strong incentives to find cheaper ways of giving people the basic things they need.
The German fear was that, without it, every euro member would have an incentive to run a big deficit, since the cost in higher interest rates and greater default risk would be shared collectively.
The presence of low-cost competition from generic products gives Gillette an incentive to innovate and introduce better products such as Fusion, a 6 blade razor.
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These have grown fat on cost-plus contracts that have given them little incentive to innovate.
In addition, biofuels cost more than gasoline, so consumers have an incentive to drive less, thereby cutting their use of all fuels.
Thus, unskilled workers cost too much and the talented have too little incentive to invest in their education, or to switch from lacklustre industries to booming ones.
As lawyers purporting to represent 800, 000 present and former DirectBuy customers, the folks at Izard Nobel had every incentive to reach an agreement quickly, and at as little cost to themselves as possible.
Of course, a voucher (or voucher-like) system is far from a perfect solution, but it is potentially a step towards increasing the cost consciousness of public institutions and providing them an incentive to avoid runaway tuition costs for students.
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.
The upfront cost of a PV system is high, but numerous financial incentive programs are in place to help make the technology more affordable.
He argued that hospitals have no incentive to report "never events" because they may have to reimburse the cost of the procedure to the NHS as well as paying for the patients' long-term care.
Using an incentive-based scheme, Vitality makes healthy lifestyles easier by providing low-cost access to gyms and significant discounts on healthy foods, and offering rewards like discounts on holidays, flights and consumer products for practicing healthy lifestyle behaviors.
These providers have tremendous incentive to measure, report and improve quality-of-care, patient experience and cost.
But there is another, less obvious cost: America's reluctance to negotiate or compromise leaves other countries little incentive to co-operate with it.
This kind of credit could cost the government less revenue and deliver bigger results than a broad-based incentive aimed at all small businesses.
The cost is paid by a special assessment on all commercial banks, who then have an incentive to lobby against any unneeded bailouts.
It also wouldn't cost taxpayers anything because it only forgoes future government revenues that wouldn't exist absent this incentive.
But only at the cost of encouraging people to take on debts they couldn't afford - and giving banks an incentive to take excessive risks.
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