"Workers' compensation insurance fraud is a multi-billion
dollar drain on our state's economy," Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement.
BILLION
DOLLAR DRAIN Many super-rich have moved to tax havens such as Monaco
BILLION
DOLLAR DRAIN Many super rich have moved to tax havens such as Monaco.
With the
dollar drain represented by the large balance of payments deficit for this year -along with next year's expected gap of $3.5 billion- bankers and economists expect the peso to gradually weaken against the US dollar.
A stronger dollar would discourage imports of non-essential items and help stop the
dollar drain.
The import was banned to stop
dollar drain out and to strengthen rupee value against dollar.
Currently, PCE is a multi-million
dollar drain on state financial resources.
If these people elect to return to their native countries, then we may experience a brain drain to go along with our
dollar drain, our manufacturing drain, and our current account drain.
AS THE DOT-COM
DOLLAR DRAIN ENters its second year, many home building-related Internet companies are running low on cash and struggling to survive.
Nobody really totals the
dollar drain, but Mike Ruggiero, part owner of Perennial Pictures Film Corp., an animation studio in Indianapolis, thinks it has been up to 20 percent.
Now that prospective payment has imposed limits on consumption of laboratory resources, inappropriate test utilization by clinicians can represent a serious
dollar drain. Microbiology, one of the laboratory's least automated and most labor-intensive areas, is particularly liable to incur financial losses from excessive test ordering.