Facebook investor Peter Thiel has recently been getting an audience for his theory that colleges cost way too much.
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It may well be true that in theory that health care cost curve can be bent by acting aggressively as a buyer.
Nothing wrong with the theory but such a player would cost thousands and thousands of pounds to store only a few songs.
In theory there will be a financial cost for the US government and US citizens, whose debt is priced off the interest rate paid by the government.
In theory, telehealth can cut the cost of care while at the same time improving its quality (for example, by letting doctors know about crucial changes when they happen, not at the patient's next appointment).
Traditional state-to-state deterrence theory suggests that such a buildup would cost a lot economically while buying nothing of strategic value.
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Pressure from consumers, in theory, should make health practitioners more cost-conscious too.
'' If patients have high deductibles and are on the hook for more of their own bills, the theory goes, they'll be more cost-conscious consumers, rejecting unneeded tests and expensive new drugs that are no more effective than older, cheaper ones.
The theory sounds great: Insurers that provide the most cost-effective care can lower premiums and attract more buyers.
Economic theory says that in a competitive market, the cost of a pizza, like the cost of a copyrighted work, will fall to its marginal cost.
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"The theory is that private sector competition will drive down the cost of drugs, " she said.
In most developing countries, contraception is in theory available to the indigent either free or at nominal cost through state agencies.
"The theory is that private sector competition will drive down the cost of drugs, " Feinstein said last month upon the bill's passage.
Mr. SWIFT: Economic theory tells us that ultimately the consumer will bear the cost and those costs just cascade right through the supply chain.
The classic theory of deterrence presupposes a calculating evildoer who can evaluate the cost-benefits of proposed actions and will act and forbear from acting on the basis of these calculations.
In theory, selling personal insurance and savings products through bank branches is more cost-effective than using networks of agents and brokers.
The quaint theory that interest should be taxable income for the recipient and a deductible cost for the payer goes back to the earliest days of the tax code almost a century ago.
That is in theory a deductible business expense, but often it must be capitalized into the cost of the vines depending on how you legally structure your operation.
With the misused cover of academic theory, politicians forced significant underreporting of official inflation, so as to cut annual cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security, etc.
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It pointed to the "gap between theory and practice" which allowed an MP to claim, as an "additional cost", for a personal telephone call made from their second home.
The principal one is that, when considering all of the participants' overall costs of reducing emissions, economic theory and now business practice teaches us that a carbon trading approach is the least cost way of meeting the environmental objective.
Even though Lovaza generics are due on the market by 2015, the theory is that Vascepa will prove to be superior and able to fend off low-cost competition.
In theory, this is an annual write-off that adds up to an asset's cost over its useful life.
The legal theory is complicated by the fact, as Judge Woodcock noted, that both types of cigarettes cost the same.
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As Japanese government officials point out, in theory consumers eventually always pay recycling costs, whether they are billed explicitly, or via the cost of new appliances.
In theory, global trade should cause prices in different countries to converge: the prices of low-cost producers should gradually increase as wages rise (ie, China's falling prices were a temporary anomaly), while the prices of high-cost producers should fall.
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That is true in theory, but until recently the societies charged much the same prices as the banks, and used their inbuilt cost advantage to build up their reserves.
In theory, if banks are required to hold more money on deposit with the central bank, this should increase the cost of their funds and so lead them to push up their interest rates.
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