It is easier for struggling companies and industries to adjust by withholding cost-of-living increases than by seeking to impose wage cuts.
Assessing the benefits of treatments in relation to costs will result in denial of treatments, and withholding cost-ineffective treatments is acceptable and consistent within this account (#31, +3).
He cited as examples Richard A. Clarke, the administration's former counterterrorism chief; Richard S. Foster, the Medicare official who says he was ordered to withhold cost estimates; and Paul O'Neill, the former treasury secretary whose recent memoir was critical of the president.
In that episode, an administration official instructed the chief Medicare actuary to withhold cost estimates sought by Democrats in Congress; support for the bill, which in the end passed narrowly, might have eroded if those estimates, larger than the administration's projections, had been widely known.
The withholding of cost information may have impeded lawmakers' ability to engage in fair debate on the bill".
Mr. Foster said he withheld the cost estimates and other information from Congress last year on instructions from Thomas A. Scully, who was then administrator of the Medicare program.
The increase is warranted to make up for the erosion in judicial pay caused by inflation and Congress's repeated withholding of cost-of-living adjustments that are supposed to be routine.
For example, it could withhold crucial cost-sharing subsidies, or decline to defend Obamacare against various lawsuits that its opponents, including the House Republicans, have brought against it.
Daniella Csizmadia, Copenhagen American retirees feel the pinch As a senior citizen living on a fixed income, I am mad that President Obama and his administration have seen fit to withhold a cost-of-living increase in 2010 for Social Security recipients.
And then, a few hours later, he did more to make Obamacare fail, by saying that he would withhold the cost-sharing subsidies that the government currently pays insurance companies in order to reduce deductibles and co-pays for many low-income people.
Trump has been threatening to withhold the cost-sharing reduction payments for months, believing that the risk of seriously damaging the health insurance market would compel congressional Democrats to cooperate with GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
