Budgets for all grants and contracts should cover both direct and facilities and administrative costs at current rates.
"Private-izing" Ryan would have us believe that, because the government does not have the money to pay all future Medicare costs if healthcare costs keep rising at current rates, switching to private insurance will somehow pay for all needed healthcare.
Costs are considered from the perspective of the UK NHS and Personal Social Services, using 2012 prices, with costs and benefits discounted at 3.5% per year, consistent with the approach taken by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to value future costs and benefits at current rates (NICE, 2013).
That equates to 1.5% once you've adjusted for inflation (assuming that the cost of living keeps rising at current rates).
The difference between the cost of the national debt at current rates and historically average ones is enormous.
Given a rather generous average cost of production of $10, and at current rates of consumption (an average of 11 per person, per year), then these medicines would cost just under $34bn for the total US population (307 million people) – a mere 11% of the current cost.
Incinerating all of it could cost something like £30m a year at current rates.
Though speculative, its modelling suggests that someone in the US could earn up to 50 times the cost of sequencing their genome – about $50,000 at current rates – taking into account both what could be made from a lifetime of renting out their genetic data, and reductions in medical bills if the results throw up a potentially preventable disease.
The city has already buried 10 of its 80 miles of cable, a project that should be completed in the next 15 years at current rates and power supply costs.
Mr. DeLuca estimates that at current rates he could recoup the cost of the system in a season and a half.
Its housing experts told a London Assembly committee earlier this year that simply replacing those would, at current rates of investment, take 72 years and cost £45b.
