They consequently lack any real concept of money values and confuse cost with worth.
Don't confuse cost with quality, either.
To which Mr Lansley, below, replied: "You're confusing a cost-improvement programme with a cut".
Cost-shifting should not be confused with cost containment.
First, he confuses the cost and value of life in comparing the cost of training and equipping an American soldier with that of an Iraqi insurgent.
Economists believe that what is denounced as "cost shifting" in health care is mainly just good old-fashioned, profit-maximizing price discrimination based on differential market power, which is not to be confused with cost shifting.
BBC deputy political editor James Landale said: "The politics are confused, the costs astronomic and the arguments disputed.
Simon Calder, who has monitored the industry for many years, warns consumers not to confuse "low-cost" airlines, which operate as cheaply as possible, with "low fares", which is what the customers pay to fly.
"The author seems to have confused retail/wholesale costs," REInvestor wrote.
Julius Genachowski, the F.C.C. chairman, will propose what he calls the commission's consumer empowerment agenda, aimed at ensuring that users of new technologies do not have to worry about hidden costs, confusing billing practices and what the commission calls "bill shock".
The Japanese automaker didnt have the legacy pension and health care costs, confusing tangle of auto brands and didnt lag the rest of the industry in automotive technology.
