Priorities and clinical strategies should be set by medical experts based on scientific evidence and cost analysis, and those decisions need to be insulated from the kinds of financial incentives and disincentives that special interest groups exert.
Regulations are developed and written in areas where a careful cost and benefit analysis reveals that regulations are justified and necessary to ensure an adequate level of protection to people, property and the environment.
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Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
Where is the cost and benefit analysis in government expenditure?
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Whistle-blowers undoubtedly face significant risk and must do cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to come forward.
Sometimes, the firm does a cost-benefits analysis and realizes that Jill is less costly than Jack.
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This proposal threatens to become the latest in a long line of expensive verification systems that fail a basic cost-benefit analysis and threaten to drown Americans in bureaucracy at every stage of their lives.
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It will require reviews, analysis, cost estimates, more reviews, more analysis, and so on seemingly ad infinitum.
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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Each technology discussion includes technical and market status, costs of energy production, cost trends, policy environment, future projections, and analysis of prospects and hurdles to expansion.
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In it, he explores the centuries-old, and still raging, philosophical arguments over the limitations of utilitarianism and its economic descendant, cost-benefit analysis.
That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
Risk analysis, and balancing cost and risk, is something the insurance industry has been doing for centuries.
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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Mr. Weiss has also worked in various international fora to enhance regulatory transparency, incentivize the development of standards through open, transparent, consensus-based processes, encourage the use of good regulatory practices (including cost-benefit analysis), and facilitate greater regulatory alignment with major U.S. trading partners.
Vendor lock-in may be unavoidable at this point, but what companies need to do is understand up-front what the exit strategy will be, and build those costs into the initial cost analysis.
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Various industry lobbies and GOP Congressmen demanded that the SEC do a cost-benefit analysis on the rule.
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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.
Having a better understanding of industry dynamics and realistic numbers would allow international policymakers to utilize better cost benefit analysis tools the next time they are faced with requests to alter the way the Internet operates.
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Then, when the agency began to draft rules, it was harassed by Wall Street, Republicans in the House and the insurance industry into justifying it through a tortuous cost-benefit analysis, which has tied it up in bureaucratic purgatory for more than two years.
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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.
Proponents argue that such cost-benefit analysis has to figure into health-care decisions, and that any medical system rations care in some way.
Cost-benefit analysis (which puts a discount rate on the future, and measures in dollars and cents) is wicked.
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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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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If you want to learn more about market-based solutions to our health care cost crisis, go to the National Center for Policy Analysis (ncpa.org) and read anything written by John Goodman, Ph.
But the center will face significant hurdles: While sequencing is declining in cost, understanding the origins of diseases such as cancer and devising potential treatments requires costly and complicated analysis of the sequencing.
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.
With human cloning technology just around the corner and enough frozen sperm in the world to already populate many generations, perhaps we should perform a cost-benefit analysis.
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.
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