And Albany -- which must approve the rebate -- has in the past been reluctant to offer any special aid to local politicians who have cut taxes.
Homeowners who take advantage of the city's rebate must sign a deed restriction stating that even if the property were to be sold, grass could not be reinstalled unless the new owner paid back the rebate, with interest.
SAVING CONSUMERS MONEY Private insurers are required by the law to spend at least 80 to 85 percent of their premium revenues on medical claims or quality improvements, or they must pay a rebate to consumers.
When you are going back over a number of years and saying this is the extra amount of money that would have been due from Britain then automatically the rebate must apply to that.
Medicaid follows a rigid formula: If a manufacturer wants its drug available through Medicaid, it must offer a rebate of at least 23.1% off average wholesale prices for brand-name drugs and 13% for generics.
Under federal law, drug makers must provide a discount, or rebate, equal to at least 15percentt of the average manufacturer price for most brand-name drugs covered by Medicaid, the program for low-income people.
Drug companies must pay additional rebates to Medicaid if a drug's price rises faster than general inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index.
Sensing a public-relations disaster, Democrats agreed Thursday to allow the Appropriations Committee, which they control and which must approve the rebates, to vote on the matter Feb. 18. Notably, Democrats in the House of Representatives have not joined their Senate colleagues.
What is rarely considered in those suggestions, however, is that in settings with internal risk adjustment (as in Switzerland) such rebates must either be implemented through risk adjustment itself or must at least be reflected, otherwise new selection incentives are created.
