A potential unintended consequence of price disclosure may be to dissuade patients from seeking care, writes Mello and her co-author, Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, because of the perception that they cannot afford treatment.
We can only hope the embarrassment she's enduring as a consequence of today's gaffe-parade will dissuade her from doing it again.
Mr McGinnis, who teaches law at Northwestern University, argues that IT can hugely increase people's power to evaluate the consequences of their collective decisions, dissuading them from making foolish choices and helping them make wise ones.
Mr. Biden said that he was still committed to closing the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that he remained critical of the Bush administration's surveillance and detention programs, saying, "we have created, not dissuaded, more terrorists as a consequence of this policy".
Another challenge is the stigma of hoarding, dissuading many from seeking help.
Sometimes, as in the case of Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut in 1967 or Senator Dave Durenberger of Minnesota in 1990, both of whom were reproached for ethical lapses, the action had little consequence other than to dissuade relatively obscure politicians from running for re-election.
But perhaps the penalties need to be steeper because such consequences certainly aren't dissuading manatee harassment across the state.
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Such campaigns would focus on dissuading members of these populations from adopting negative health behaviors while promoting positive lifestyle choices.
None of this, of course, dissuaded her.
"I've grown used to dissuading them from seeking their own kind of justice".
