But surely going only for coverage now just delays the task of cost control until later?
In a business where profit margins are seldom thicker than wood shavings, cost control is everything.
"Time and again, we have seen poor design, poor implementation and weak cost control, " he said.
The enhancement in margin came on account of cost control, reduced bad debt and other factors.
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Product rationalization and operational efficiencies are helping cost control and margin expansion at Rovi.
Productivity, competitiveness, cost control, and the quality of goods and services were all largely incidental.
Perhaps when this happens administrators will be forced to get serious about cost control.
But it is expensive, and it takes only hesitant steps in the crucial direction of cost control.
There will be no meaningful cost control until we are all cost controllers in our own right.
On taking the helm, Mr Sihler said that cost control would be one of his first priorities.
Mr Orszag is right that, if implemented, this provision will represent an important lever of cost control.
But now there is much more sense that the industry needs to reshape itself for long-term cost control.
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With the discretionary budget freeze, the president has made the focus on cost control and efficiency very clear.
Our elected officials in both political parties have not shown a willingness to act to implement cost control solutions.
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As a result, the government would demand "greater efficiency and cost control" from future projects, he told the conference.
The second reason why governments have turned to private insurance is cost control.
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Everyone was also expected to send in a bi-weekly report on how they were doing on their cost control drive.
Committee chairman Margaret Hodge said inefficient funding systems and poor cost control had driven up the cost of the programme.
But with cost control, a strong balance sheet and loads of stock buybacks, Gap has made itself an attractive investment.
But he adds that many businesses are still concentrating on cost control to grow profits, which suggests a lack of confidence.
This is because Medicaid so severely underpays doctors, as a clumsy attempt at cost control, that doctors lose money seeing these patients.
So the cost control aspects of it, the coverage aspects of it, and the insurance reform aspects of it all fit together.
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The critical question is how soon that sort of quality and cost control will be available to patients everywhere across the country.
The federal law is supposed to have cost control built into it.
Francis and others have shown that FEHBP provides superior customer satisfaction, a better benefit package, and greater cost control than Medicare does.
The Administration can't abide that Medicare Advantage is stealing customers from government control, while also exposing the failure of traditional Medicare's cost control.
As media interest in the protest fizzled, donations started to dry up at the same time as cost control became somewhat less than stringent.
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Its cost control had gone too far, and customers caught in the endless phone menus of Dell's support centres frequently broke down in tears.
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His hospital either fought the pressure to control costs and went down with the local economy or learned how to benefit from cost control.
If the new law is not repealed by 2013, what could be done to reshape it in the direction of freedom and genuine cost control?
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