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Faced with rising cost-driven layoffs, the Democratic government removed the design of health plans from collective bargaining, provided that the localities matched the state plan's benchmarks for cost-sharing.
Collective Bargaining Weakens Cities Robert M. Costrell 2011
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Far more radical than cost-driven reconstructions of government in federal Canada or high-end Sweden, the coalition's cultural revolution is Maoist in its sweeping, theory-based ambition.
Political briefing: A drip-drip bloodbath in SW1 Michael White 2010
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By the 1970s, though, "they became cost-driven and functional and ugly," she says.
Sleek, Chic Hangout ... a Garage Arian Campo-Flores 2012
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Multiple providers that used to have a "make it right" fund for unhappy customers or adapted their policies as needed to sensibly handle a situation, are now becoming more rigid and cost-driven.
Tony Greenberg: IT Services Markets Crumble - Driving Detroit's Rut, Is the Media Business Next? 2010
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O'Leary's quips and publicity stunts include calling the prime minister of Ireland a "gobshite" and threatening to charge passengers for using the toilet, but analysts have praised Ryanair for adhering to a simple, cost-driven business model.
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Just look at the recent study which actually re-confirmed an earlier study from 2000–2002, showing that out of all bankruptcies, 60% of them were medical cost-driven, and over 75% of the people who declared had health insurance at the time when they gotill.
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Just look at the recent study which actually re-confirmed an earlier study from 2000–2002, showing that out of all bankruptcies, 60% of them were medical cost-driven, and over 75% of the people who declared had health insurance at the time when they got ill.
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To make publishing less cost-driven, and more quality-driven, would require a whole new ballgame.
Cheryl? It's Not Just the Manuscripts. Roger Sutton 2007
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Using a simple mathematical model you can see that cost-driven medicine (managed-care) is incompatible with quality of care.
Philip Lee Miller: HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost 2009
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The largest of all HMO's today, Kaiser Permanente, demands minimalist, algorithm-based, cost-driven medicine.
Philip Lee Miller: HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost 2009
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