Romney's proposed alternative is to give individuals a tax break when they buy insurance and to push them toward high-deductible insurance plans, which he believes will make them more rigorous and price-conscious in choosing doctors and treatments.
The value-based screen is fairly rigorous, requiring: –Price-earnings ratio less than the average P/E for the past five years.
Cost-containment strategies such as utilization review mechanisms, rational drug use, and rigorous pharmaceutical pricing mechanisms are very important to consider while implementing the universal coverage reform.
After the development of the BS model, many endeavors have been organized to sort out the rigorous notions of pricing models.
The crisis has clearly prompted changes to risk management and underwriting practices: more emphasis on affordability, more rigorous stress-testing, better pricing for borrowers with more equity to put in.
Amid public outcry over alleged regulatory capture in the Philippine electricity sector, which saw leading legislators calling for a rigorous assessment of electricity prices, many were horrified to discover how little has been invested in preventing oligarchic collusion in key national industries.
We realise our identities with the stuff we buy, having arrived at an advantageous price through the rigorous pursuit of our own consumer interests.
Academia has gone quant, with once-humanistic fields like politics, on which I work at Harvard, studied in a more rigorous way, but at the price of having ever less to say about the world's big questions.
Each reverse-engineering method has specific features and can be suitable for different needs: for example, Bayesian networks can provide statistically rigorous results but at the price of high computational costs, whereas mutual information approaches are computationally fast but are limited mostly by the lack of directionality of the inferred links.
From less rigorous curriculums to higher tuition prices, the universities have changed the way Americans think of educations.
