And you've also faced the breakneck, unrelenting climb of costs for your health care needs.
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Fearing an explosion of costs, employers came up with chintzy ways of complying with parity laws.
We need everyone in the coverage pool to have any chance of costs coming down.
In our analysis of cost containment, we focus on slowing the growth rate of costs.
The trick here, then, is to find the right balance of costs and benefits.
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Bancassurance does not spread the burden of costs much, says Andrew Goodwin at Commerzbank.
Vendor lock-in is one of the biggest sources of costs in running IT, Whitehurst says.
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But then there are these kinds of costs as well, borne privately by families.
That is more than a doubling of costs in the span of a decade!
The side benefit is the consumer (patient) will be more aware of costs and consume smarter.
For most of the 10 biggest airlines, fuel costs account for between 35% and 37% of costs.
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Those two sets of costs are very different, very different indeed, and need to be accounted for separately.
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Sources say the government plans to make some child care costs tax deductible - potentially up to a third of costs.
For them, trust is earned not with a handshake but with clear, timely disclosure of costs and portfolio holdings.
This could cause a decline in pricing power and inflation of costs, particularly relating to employee retention and training.
Medicaid currently pays doctors and hospitals only 60% or less of costs for their health services to the poor.
But the biggest driver of costs is the number of drugs that make it into late-stage studies and fail.
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The program today pays doctors and hospitals only 60% of costs for their health care services for the poor.
Bank of America has the most room for improvement in terms of costs.
This made it useless for making a valid comparison of costs, it said.
The growth of costs affects everyone: government overspending, business costs and family budgets.
Yet, Medicaid pays doctors and hospitals only 60% or less of costs for their health services to the poor.
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The initial security measures imposed on airlines were based on hunch rather than serious analysis of costs and benefits.
Further, a sufficiently ruthless management could strip an awful lot of costs out of the average US newspaper set up.
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You would have done better by compiling a survey of costs and explaining what it takes to bring them down.
The great danger is that corporate staff members will dig in their heels and fight for one particular forecast of costs.
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On top of the costs of new devices, there can be significant costs to disposing of the old ones safely and effectively.
By contrast, she wrote, a recent cost-cutting plan from Pfizer is expected to save twice that much as a percentage of costs.
So far, however, it is not winning enough to get the ratio of costs to income down to its target of 70%.
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