Word: affordability
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...House bill could force drugmakers to lower prices) and health care industries but decided to support the bill anyway. "Each year the economic cost of untreated mental illness is staggering - over $100 billion on untreated mental health disorders and $400 billion on addiction disorders," Sullivan said. "Our country cannot afford to continue losing $500 billion a year to these treatable diseases...
...sector, Iraq could become the largest producer in the world, surpassing Saudi Arabia. Crocker didn't put it in terms this baldly, but he might as well have said: We keep an army in Iraq, and we go back to the days of cheap oil. Anyone can afford to drive an SUV if they want...
...held in large individual enclosures to prevent fighting. Extra money is coming - $10 million from the federal government over the next five years - but more is needed, says Belov: "I don't think there's enough urgency attached to this." She has 600 tissue samples she can't afford to analyze and relies on volunteers and students for lab work. She's also one of a number of scientists seeking financial backing to sequence the devil genome for more clues...
...pump? "I know that some people don't have to worry when they go to the supermarket," she said, staring accusingly at the placard bearers, but "there are people who count their pennies as they walk down the aisle," trying to figure out what they can afford. "Don't they deserve a break every once in a while? They haven't done anything wrong ... The oil companies have had it their way for too long," she said. "I'm tired of being a patsy...
...continue living in the city after retirement, officials said at a roundtable discussion yesterday. Clifford Cook, planning information manager for the Community Development Department, said that as Cambridge becomes more affluent, it becomes more difficult for elderly residents—who are often on fixed incomes—to afford rising rents and other costs. Cook added that the city is becoming more socioeconomically diverse because the number of low-income residents—who often live in public housing—has remained constant, while higher-income individuals have steadily replaced middle-class residents. “When...