Sentence examples for outrageous premium from inspiring English sources
Instead of offering everything that consumers expected, Apple created a single device with a standard design, updated the device at most once a year, shrouded feature changes in secrecy, and charged an outrageous premium to the market.
"The outrageous premium prices which they have been pushing on the American people in order to drive up their profits are unacceptable and unfair," Durbin said.
Its members say it's time that the program protected homeowners from outrageous premiums, pushed money to storm victims rather than insurance companies and government contractors, and held insurers and engineers accountable for fraud.
Bear in mind that the horrors of health insurance — outrageous premiums, coverage denied to those who need it most and dropped when you actually get sick — will get only worse if reform fails, and insurance companies know that they're off the hook.
And we pay for it progressively through the tax base, but for, I think the statistics are something like 90percentt of Americans, we save an enormous amount of money, because we're paying for health care and health insurance through the teeth right now in so many ways, including outrageous, skyrocketing premiums and copays and so on.
Doctors' anger with outrageous malpractice insurance premiums is understandable, but the real problem lies with doctors' being unable to change their fees in accordance with their expenses because of H.M.O. and managed care price controls.
This includes provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) like full coverage of birth control without copays or deductibles, and prohibiting outrageous practices like "gender rating" (higher premiums for women) and refusing coverage based on "pre-existing conditions".
Due to the sliding scale of taxes and fees, the premium for an exotic car is even more outrageous.
And in a world where a premium is placed "on the sensational and the most outrageous or a conflict as a way of getting attention and breaking through the noise", a "pessimism about the country" develops.
I sympathize with the international buyers who are paying huge premiums because of the slow Apple rollout— spending $200, $500 more for an iPad is outrageous but justifiable in the context of scarcity.
