The Innovation Alliance is particularly concerned about lawmakers' lack of analysis of a recent cost estimate of the House bill by the Congressional Budget Office, just released Tuesday.
Something which rather explodes the cost benefit analysis of having the fast trains at all for the benefits rely so heavily on the high value of the time of these very important people not doing anything.
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He also criticised the government's cost benefit analysis of the benefits of fitting fire sprinklers in homes as being "out of date".
The analysis shows that the overall cost of the CAT and FES policies combined would be higher than the cost of the CAT policy alone with no added reduction in GHG emissions.
Democrats pushing the health care bills argue the CBO analysis lacks the impact of cost-cutting measures under discussion for existing programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
But the new budget office analysis does not include the cost of a proposed expansion of the federally funded Medicaid system for low-income families, a proposal expected to add several hundred billion to the tab.
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Like the UC-Irvine iPod study before it, the ADBI analysis found that just a tiny fraction of the cost of producing the iPhone is Chinese value-added.
It only makes sense to perform a classic, textbook analysis of the publically available information if you are an analyst who controls enough money that a tenth of a percentage point in stock price equals the cost of the time that you spend doing the analysis.
EGCs and underwriters view the benefit of additional information as outweighing the cost, as it allows more thorough discussion and analysis of trends and uncertainties, as well as more meaningful due diligence to make sure the disclosure overall is fair and accurate.
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The Social Security analysis doesn't attempt to determine the overall cost of the bill.
Comparing terms is often a complicated analysis and the practical cost-of-capital of a given debt term sheet is sometimes hard to calculate.
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Canada's withdrawal comes ahead of a major convention in Bonn, Germany, "to carry out the first ever comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought", the UN Environment Programme said.
Its analysis shows that the total cost of gas, electricity and labor in making transportation equipment and machinery in the U.S. now beats the cost in Germany, France, Italy, the U.K. and Japan.
Of course, one can only imagine what Iran might do once it has nuclear weapons, and this is part of the cost-benefit analysis Israel must make before launching attacks in the first place.
But the audit is reportedly not going to include a cost-benefit analysis, owing to the difficulty of quantifying such aspects of EU membership as foreign affairs influence.
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By law, CMS is prohibited from doing cost-effectiveness analysis, but as The Legal Pulse has previously noted, the ethic of factoring cost into coverage decisions permeates the agency to the point where its employees have conducted their own, independent research on the cost of certain drugs.
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We should require rent-seeking analysis of each major regulation alongside the still rarely done cost-benefit analyses.
Analytics will move from being a differentiator to the cost of doing business, a key point made in the PwC analysis.
Contrary to a commonly held view of crowdsourcing as a transfer of low-skill work to low cost locations, our analysis shows that more than half of all the crowdsourcing workers live in North America and Europe and workers are generally very well educated.
The analysis of physician pay by the Medical Group Management Association indicates a greater shift to lower-cost primary care as employers, insurance companies and government health programs try to provide financial incentives to health professionals who work in outpatient care settings.
In our analysis of cost containment, we focus on slowing the growth rate of costs.
Are they going to be part of the review on cost-benefit analysis?
Based on the results of cost-benefit analysis, state regulators would potentially require investor-owned utilities to enter long-term contracts to buy offshore wind power.
Journalists, too, make a cost-benefit analysis about the price of that access in terms of what it takes to remain in the good graces of the corporate insiders who can provide it.
Toby Syfret of Enders Analysis, a consultancy, argues that the BBC's heavy spending is in fact bidding up the cost of presenters and programmes, making it harder for Channel 4 and the other networks to survive.
In one analysis by the Office of Management and Budget, of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17.
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And the British Medical Association has warned that there is little analysis to prove that the centres are a cost-effective way of providing NHS care.
In a detailed analysis comparing diesel and gas versions of the same models, Vincentric calculated the cost of ownership over five years, assuming 15, 000 miles of driving annually.
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An analysis by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation in 2009 showed that the cost of this achievement has been relatively modest and well within early projections of how much the state would have to spend to implement reform.
As the critics allege, cost-benefit analysis works like a kind of universal solvent.
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