Managers, like ministers, are rewarded for spending cuts in their area of work, even if that increases costs for their colleagues and for society at large.
He said he prefers a policy "that increases costs for them for behavior like this in the future but does not create problems for us".
Once schools are on the drawing board, some neighborhoods fight against their approval, forcing the board to change the sites, which increases costs for planning and design.
This not only increases costs for carriers, it also leads to increases in downstream prices that directly affect consumers.
This increases costs for local companies making them likely to exit the market (Aitken and Harrison 1999).
But cutting benefits has nothing to do with cutting health care costs, and actually increases costs for seniors.
But the most sophisticated research shows that while it increases costs for businesses, it also generates billions in new consumer spending that offsets much of the higher cost.
Higher prescription-drug spending also increases costs for taxpayer-funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; this translates into higher taxes, cuts to public programs or both.
It significantly increases costs for hospitalization.
It also increases costs for clinicians and healthcare systems.
