Sentences with phrase «artificially inflated rates»

In fact, he insists that his legislation would actually drive down premiums for everyone, noting that a major reason they are so pricey is that hospitals and doctors charge the insured artificially inflated rates to cover the unpaid bills of the uninsured.

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Loose monetary policy: Low interest rates, some which are zero or even negative, work to artificially inflate asset prices.

Including high risk births in the hospital group artificially inflates the mortality rate, giving you in inaccurate impression of actual risks.

In the latest kerfuffle, the district's school report card included a measure of early literacy that many say is based on an unreliable measure that artificially inflates school performance ratings.

While CEP is a valuable nutrition program, it makes FRPL functionally unusable as a proxy for counting low - income students and has the effect of artificially inflating FRPL rates in participating schools and districts because all students receive no - cost meals, regardless of family income.

Don't try to artificially inflate your book's ratings by conspiring with fellow indie authors to post mutually flattering «customer reviews.»

If the Fed did not artificially inflate or deflate interest rates the free market would work to the benefit of everyone.

This artificially low rate greatly inflates the needed monthly contributions.

It would be wrong to claim that the growth rate is artificially inflated by the first method just as it would be wrong to claim that it is reduced by the second one.

There was a very high diagnostic overlap with ODD; however, the use of a proxy DMDD diagnosis containing items from the ODD module of the DISC - IV may have artificially inflated the comorbidity rates.

The comparative calculator on its website does not allow consumers to change this artificially standardized and inflated rate.»