Parente and Bragdon estimate that repeal of community rating and guaranteed issue could reduce the price of individual coverage by 42%.
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Over the past five weeks, Congress must move forward -- over the next five weeks, Congress must move forward on comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to reduce teen smoking by raising the price of cigarettes, putting into place tough restrictions on advertising and access, and imposing penalties on the industry if it continues to sell cigarettes to children.
This is expected to reduce the average price of new apartments by a third, causing a lot of first-time buyers to start knocking on the door.
Sales taxes, too, are important because they further reduce living standards by raising the price of goods and services that can be purchased with after-tax income.
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Distressed-asset investor Oaktree Capital Group, however, has seen its shares slide more than 5% since they began trading on Thursday even after the company was forced to reduce its offering size by 21% and price shares at the low end of their expected range.
Officials have suggested that raising the price could help reduce consumption by around 20%.
The essence is to reduce the price of a product or service by a breathtaking amount 80% rather than 10% by removing unnecessary bells and whistles.
For instance, according to a Scottish Office study, an increase of 10% in the price of fuel will reduce the mileage of poor people in the countryside by twice as much as that of more affluent households.
If firms are passing up easy opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by re-using waste, then governments have set the price of emissions too low.
Bringing complicated derivative exchanges out of the shadows would enhance market-price transparency, and increased collateral requirements would reduce the risk of investors and banks being wiped out by mistaken trades that allegedly threaten the financial system.
By selling twice as many puts in the September contract the investor was able to reduce the price of getting long the nearly at-the-money July contract puts to just 14 cents each.
The decision was warmly received by the VoIP industry, where growth has been haunted by the specter of regulation, which threatened to raise the price of calls and reduce the profitability of service providers.
By aligning an executive's pay with the firm's share price, options reduce the scope for playing games.
The prices of solar panels have fallen by more than half over the past year and a half, and that helps to reduce the price of solar electricity.
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