That and, to be fair, the problem of being both a consumer and enterprise company.
Oxford worked hard to give the impression that it had solved the problem that was plaguing the rest of the industry: how to combine managed care with consumer choice.
But for now, the market seems to see no imminent problem for the economy, in spite of the negative reports this week on consumer sentiment, negative GDP growth, and the tick up in the unemployment rate.
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The fundamental problem, of course, is that with a third party paying the bills, the consumer, or the patient, has no incentive to control costs.
The Bank of England has said there are signs of an improvement in credit conditions although it will take time - but many banks say the problem is that healthy businesses do not want to borrow because of a lack of consumer demand in the economy.
"The central problem lies in the twin role of the FSA - it is supposed to look after the consumer and prevent damage to the UK financial sector, " Louise Hanson, Consumers' Association spokeswoman told BBC News Online.
The problem is the head of, the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has a responsibility to parents, to families, to kids all over this country and if she doesn't adequately fulfill that responsibility, there's no one else to do it.
By tackling the harder problem of recycling ocean plastic, Method hopes to raise awareness about the greater need to use post-consumer plastics.
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Given the discrepancy between Consumer Reports' explanation of the reception problem and the explanation provided by Apple in its July 2 letter to customers, I am concerned that the nearly two million purchasers of the iPhone 4 may not have complete information about the quality of the product they have purchased.
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One consumer website in particular has already cracked the problem of building easy-to-use collaboration tools with mass appeal.
For economic theories that see final demand as the driving force behind growth, recessions are simply a problem of a lack of consumer spending.
Unsolicited mobile marketing grew to be a major problem in recent years, causing the Indian government to step in on behalf of the consumer.
Another problem, say consumer advocates, is that medical providers charge patients for the full cost of a procedure at the first visit even before multistage medical work is completed.
While other people testifying, such as privacy advocate Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology, pointed out that this is a problem for consumer privacy, Weinstein just expressed jealousy.
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But whatever the chosen technology, we urgently need to do something about the problem of online identity, and not just so that we can bank safely or buy even more consumer goods.
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Frankly, I think your right that corporate taxes are averted and if paid would be passed on the consumer, which if returned to the consumer in the form of wages would not cause me to have have a problem with that.
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But the problem with greenwashing goes well beyond the greenwasher and the greenwashed end user where the consumer fails to receive the benefit of the bargain by not getting the green product or service they expected.
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