There was a universal agreement among facility level managers of frequently "delayed cash transfers from the [state] treasury to the DHO", with consequent delayed payments to CHAM facilities.
Here's the problem: Businesses run in cycles, and a temporary downturn (and consequent reduction in payments from customers) could crimp the company's ability to cover those $5 million annual interest payments.
This was due to a number of factors, among them reparation payments, the flight of German capital abroad, obstacles to the revival of German foreign trade, and a consequent adverse balance of payments.
Since illness is unpredictable, the consequent out-of-pocket payments incurred are likely to impose a financial burden on families.
To date, the RAND-Study, conducted in California during the 1970s, is regarded as a fundamental investigation on moral hazard in health insurance [ 25]. 5,809 US citizens were randomly assigned to 14 different health insurance contracts (with different co-payment modalities) and their consequent behaviour was documented for three to five years.
Buyers in competitive markets must accommodate their bids to prices offered by others, and the payment of different prices at different places is the ordinary consequent.
In addition, the BBC argues that for every 1% reduction in penetration of the licence fee, there would be a consequent £35m loss of income and that enforcement would be much more difficult if non-payment was a civil rather than a criminal offence as it would be harder to use detection equipment.
My problem concerns the non-payment of a long-standing direct debit into my John Lewis account last month, and the consequent imposition of interest.
Consequent redesigns scarcely helped.
The consequent rise in costs and prices has at times been disturbing domestically and has been particularly embarrassing to governments that face difficulties in balancing their external payments.
