Sentence examples for underlying costs from inspiring English sources

Aetna recently reported that the underlying costs of providing health care were rising faster than profits.

Underlying costs are 0.25%, but it charges nothing on the first £10,000.

The home insurance industry is notorious­ for ripping off "loyal" customers with annual increases that bear no relation to underlying costs.

Effective competitors assess the price sensitivity and underlying costs of serving specific customer segments and adjust pricing to protect these segments from new low-cost players.

"It's very hard politically to deal with the underlying costs of the system," said Andrew Coburn, director of the Institute for Health Policy at the Muskie School of Public Service in Portland.

Following these results, we are reducing our 2016 pre-tax forecast to £0.5m from £2.0m taking earnings per share down to 0.5p from 2.1p predicated on flat sales, flat gross margin and underlying costs declining by 0.5%.

While considerable work has been done to gauge the degree of integration between the Canadian and U.S. economies through trade, relatively little analysis has parsed out the underlying costs of the border.

A number of organisations make a tidy profit charging for data but we don't see this as being the best way for the UK to get the full benefit from the underlying costs of producing these datasets.

The first task in sorting through the data is to distinguish premiums, which rise and fall in cycles like prices of other types of insurance, from the underlying costs of treating patients.

But when you examine the strategic value and underlying costs of these programs, I've found that loyalty discounts are rarely necessary to close a deal, nor are they always highly valued by customers.

Workers' increasing out-of-pocket costs are creating widespread discontent with the underlying costs of care — a problem largely driven by the high prices charged to private payers for health services and pharmaceuticals.