Many programs cost up to one thousand dollars or more, though some are available for poor families.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The private-public partnerships are designed to increase the availability of low cost vaccines in poor areas.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

And that health insurance is tax-funded, particularly for the poor, so that what happens is the insurance now pays the cost that the people would have paid previously out of their own pockets."

VOA: special.2010.11.24

Committee chairman Margaret Hodge said inefficient funding systems and poor cost control had driven up the cost of the programme.

BBC: 'Millions wasted' on inefficient academies scheme

The problems of Asia's financial firms are due not to too much competition, but to over-protection and cronyism, which have encouraged shoddy lending and poor cost-control.

ECONOMIST: Dealing for dollars

Athletic departments have little patience for poor cost efficiency, which helps explain why nine of the ten teams on our list have brought in new head football coaches within the last three years.

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