Sentences with phrase «expense of consumers»

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief, Scott Gottlieb, criticized pharmacy benefit managers, health insurers and drugmakers on Wednesday for «Kabuki drug - pricing constructs» that profit the industry at the expense of consumers.

Clearly, harmonization aims to help businesses at the expense of consumers.

One of my bitch points is the lack of transparency that comes from the obfuscation and stealing of the English language by the broker - dealer world to their benefit and at the expense of the consumer.

«It means reversing this long time economic model, where the state will profit through the economic system at the expense of the consumers and household, and one of the things that the new leadership is intent on doing in order to create consumption is to empower consumers, so they spend more and stop empowering state organizations which are fuelling the overcapacity and the massive debt bubble».

«These mergers may indeed increase the profits of Aetna and Anthem, but they would do so at the expense of consumers, employers and health professionals across the country, inflicting costs that can not be measured in just dollars alone,» Attorney General Loretta Lynch said July 21.

Not all collaboration by firms in the same industry is at the expense of consumers, but this is always a danger.

Why is the coalition letting them profit at the expense of consumers?

Uber spokeswoman Alix Anfang said in an emailed statement: «Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell has acted to protect taxi interests at the expense of consumers and hardworking drivers.»

«In just the last decade, we've had a technology bubble, an oil bubble and a housing bubble, not to mention the Enron fiasco and California's electricity crisis, each of which was least partially caused by speculators and manipulators trying to make a buck at the expense of consumers,» English said.

«Federal regulators were right to reject a proposal that would have amounted to nothing more than giving coal and nuclear power plants billions of dollars in guaranteed profits at the expense of consumers,» said Mike Jacobs, senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Preservatives — Prolonging shelf life and profits, food manufacturers use preservatives at the expense of the consumer, causing hyperactivity in children, neurological impairment in adults, and a wide range of cancers.

These added ingredients are used by most manufactures in order to speed up the manufacturing process and save money at the expense of the consumer's health.

It would also allow amazon to set up a second hand market place and provide a counter point to publishers who are enriching themselves at the expense of consumer and authors both.

Thus, the DOJ argues, Apple and publishers conspired to raise prices at the expense of consumers.

If you want to openly conspire to set prices in order to protect your market and limit competition at the expense of the consumer you will only be able to get away with doing so for two years, plus however long it takes the government to drag you into court, prove anything, and penalize you with a slap - on - the - wrist settlement in which you ultimately offer consumers a small price break they will almost certainly never take you up on for products they probably don't want to buy anyway.

He added, «We are eager to move forward with our civil action against Apple and the publishers, and to show the court and the public the depth and breadth of the conspiracy they concocted at the expense of consumers.»

Arbitration boards sometimes favor their repeat company clients at the expense of consumers.

So, rather than settlement plans applied to the proper set of individual circumstances maintaining the major advantage of flexibility over a DMP and chapter 13 payments, its bastardized at the expense of the consumer and the economy for the benefit of the CCA so the agencies can maintain revenue and relevancy.

Manufacturers, dealers, lenders, and support personnel all benefit from increased sales income — but is this coming at the expense of consumers?

... The market - based U.S. model of emissions reduction has proven that environmental improvement need not come at the expense of consumers or the economy.

Under the pending EPA regulations, the price of energy is going to go up at the expense of consumers, both individuals and businesses, and as a result employment could drop.

All at the expense of consumers and the poor.

Seizing opportunities, BTW, is the problem at the expense of consumers and tax payers.

Moreover, economists note, the European trading scheme has enriched certain industries at the expense of consumers and other industries.

While some might consider this to be an unfair policy outcome that unduly favours occupiers at the expense of consumers, this protection is expressly provided for in the OLA, and there can be little doubt that its specific provisions prevail over the general scheme of the CPA.

«Whilst we welcome the digitalisation of legal systems that are designed to increase information and accessibility for people, this should not be at the expense of consumer safeguards.

In two posts this week, David Giacalone, a former antitrust lawyer with the Federal Trade Commission, says personal - injury lawyers are profiting at the expense of the consumers they represent.

Further, the film suggests that these advocacy groups devastated America's civil justice system by funding the judicial campaigns of candidates willing to serve corporate interests at the expense of consumers and sympathetic Plaintiffs.

In all honestly, most companies exist to make it easier on them and their agents at the expense of the consumer (YOU).

[30] This reduces the regulatory burden for insurers as policy forms must be approved by states; it also allows consumers to more readily compare policies, albeit at the expense of consumer choice.

FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz says «Facebook's innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy.

Then salespeople get their education at the expense of the consumers.

The compensation rules were designed to fight practices, such as «overages» and «yield spread premiums,» that were viewed as benefiting the originator at the expense of the consumer.

We've long supported reform of the Federal Housing Administration, and I have testified twice before Congress on the issue.Our position is clear — it's important to shore up the long - term solvency of FHA, but not at the expense of the consumers it was designed to serve.

While the return of private lenders is necessary for a healthy market, having only private capital as the sole source of housing finance could severely restrict mortgage capital and result in a system that is dominated by a few large banks that are «too - big - to - fail» at the expense of consumers.

The Competition Bureau says the rules promote the traditional commission - based way of doing business at the expense of consumer choice and flexibility.

«TREB has abused, and continues to abuse, its substantial market power and control of relevant markets to reduce competition and protect its member brokers» interests at the expense of consumers,» says Gregory Vistnes, a vice president with Washington - based consulting firm Charles River Associates in a 189 - page report filed as part of the complex case.