He said he set up a per-capita cap in Missouri in 2002 and in 2001 Tennessee set up a per capita cap under a Democratic governor.
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Daschle said the per capita cap approach would give states the incentive to improve services with guaranteed benefits.
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The Federal Reserve, in its board meeting last week, proposed a 12-cent per transaction cap on the interchange fees charged by banks on debit card transactions.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has proposed a 12-cent per transaction cap on debit interchange fees, down from an average of 44 cents, for all but the smallest banks and credit unions.
Cricket Australia responded by reducing the ticket cap per customer from 10 to four.
He said some states have been gaming Medicaid to get more federal money and those states would likely be against a per-capita cap approach.
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And Herbalife (HLF) again garnered more headlines per dollar of market cap than it truly deserves, but the Street remained fascinated with the public display of fund titans squaring off on opposite sides of the HLF debate.
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House Republicans have discussed pushing a Medicaid per-person spending cap next year as a possible compromise to the Medicaid block grant proposal in the House-passed budget, according to Rep. Mike Burgess (R-TX), but Democratic lobbyists say it is doubtful Congress could work out a deal in part because per-person caps would create bureaucratic nightmares.
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Ryan would put a cap on the per capita growth of the premium support equal to nominal GDP growth plus 0.5%.
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Last week, the Federal Reserve voted to cap the swipe fees at 21 cents per transaction vs. the original plan that called for a a 12 cents fees cap the Fed proposed in December last year.
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An elder care clinic and hospital could be compensated with a per-patient fee that would cap the total cost.
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Originally, the Durbin amendment called to cap so-called interchange fees banks charge retailers at 12 cents per transaction, but the Fed announced today that it would up that cap to 21 cents.
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Retailers argu that the money collected per transaction, which currently has no cap and averages about 44 cents, were excessive and hurting consumers.
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Retailers argued that the money collected by banks per swipe, which had has no cap and averaged about 44 cents, were excessive and hurting consumers.
But there is no cap on what companies can charge per megabyte for data.
To the horror of financial institutions, the Fed has proposed 2 solutions, both of which would cap debit interchange at 12 cents per transaction.
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Until recently, bonus rewards where limited to just one item per purchase, but the chain recently lifted the cap as gas prices started climbing.
The retailers won the battle (the rule went into effect on October 1) and now banks can only charge merchants 21 cents per swipe whereas before the rule there was no cap and the average fee was 44 cents.
Thus, the equity market cap is 306 billion euros and the price per share is 45 euros.
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Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray has indicated he would cap council tax rises at one or two per cent if he wins next May's election.
Shares of Visa and MasterCard dipped last week after the Senate rejected a proposed six-month delay on a Federal Reserve rule to cap debit card swipe fees at 12 cents per transaction.
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Provident Financial Chief Executive Robin Ashton told Money Box that he was not in favour of a rate cap and rejected the claim that the 177 per cent APR his company charges is excessive or extortionate.
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For example, large cap stocks have historically returned about 9% per annum in the U.S., but due to the new market realities, of slow growth, heightened volatility, punctuated by periodic financial crisis, an annual return estimate of 6% to 8% for a large cap stock portfolio might be more realistic.
The idea was that countries whose emissions fall under the emissions cap -- the permitted level of CO2 equivalent emissions per year -- could then sell those carbon credits to countries who are not able to meet their own caps.
The Netherlands, which has been involved in multiple bank rescues, imposed a bonus cap in 2010 and is considering tightening the limit to 20 per cent of salary.
But it should be design to cap the liability, not simply shift the health care expenditure (per GDP) to private insurers, and let them (and me, in some not to distance future) make realistic choice of how to deal with their naturally degenerating bodies.
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When a human wearing the EEG cap was introduced, the number of false alarms dropped to only five per hour, out of a total of 2, 304 target events per hour, and a 91 percent successful target recognition rate.
Historically small-caps outperformed large-caps in 80% of all Januaries by 3 percentage points per year (small-caps being defined as the bottom 30% of stocks market cap weighted).
The rule for existing sources, now under development, would work like this: Because coal and gas are combined in a single category, the EPA would cap an average rate of, say, 1, 400 pounds of CO2 per megawatt-hour.
Although Greenland has recently been experiencing a slight warming trend, satellite measurements show that the ice cap has been accumulating snow growth at a rate of about 2.1 inches per year.
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