Focusing solely on TARP and ignoring the other more costly portions of the government bailout of our biggest banks and corporations ignores the true cost of the government's (both the Bush and Obama administrations, the Fed and Congress) inept response to this crisis.
In a digital environment, companies can spend a lot on components because those technologies eliminate 40-90% of labor costs (the costliest portion of existing business processes).
The project would be costly in part because some portions of it could be elevated over S.R. 50.
The X-ray machines are so costly that large portions of the country -- particularly rural areas of the Midwest and South -- just do not have any, said Sandra Raymond of the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
That comes as no surprise; designers generally rely on the standardized markups on costly furnishings for a portion of their fee, if not all of it.
In the early design stage of a flight vehicle, digital computer modeling of prospective designs enables rapid examination of several candidate configurations and thus replaces a portion of costly wind-tunnel testing.
However, it could be that the effectiveness of a CHW-based adherence program after 10 years would be low or simply be more costly given the large portion of screened individuals that might require CHW visits.
Technology has helped with the early part of the process, the discovery of compounds, but not as much with the costliest and most time-consuming portion of drug development -- clinical trials.
Hospitalizations related to diabetes are costly and account for a major portion of the total expenditure on diabetes.
Despite the declining costs of next generation DNA sequencing (summarized in [ 3]), it remains costly enough to prohibit analyzing large portions of genomes in numerous individuals as is required for population studies (e.g. population genomics, [ 4]).
But it will probably push premiums even higher for individual insurance purchasers, because there will be fewer healthy people in the insurance pool and a larger portion of sick people requiring costly care.
