The revised cost estimates are due to higher expected future costs, the new life-of-mine plan, and the doubling of royalties by the Zambian government.

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The price distortions in the CMS program are likely to ricochet throughout the health sector, making it difficult if not impossible to find the true competitive price for medical devices in the future, according to Tom Bradley, chief of Medicare cost estimates at the Congressional Budget Office.

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Obviously, any cost estimates based on presumed inflation rates decades in the future are likely to be wildly wrong.

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