51. Report cards, acting as a guide for consumer choices, can help drive health costs down and quality up. 52. Right now, the Justice Department is right to demand that Microsoft not use its current monopoly to restrict consumer choices. 53. Republicans have championed such accounts as a way to maximize consumer choice and establish a bulwark against government regulation of the health care market. 54. Schaeffer also said WellPoint emphasizes consumer choice of managed care plans. 55. She scoffed at the notion that ads run now may also affect future consumer choices. 56. Some have looked at consumer choices, measuring how much people were willing to pay for smoke detectors, safer cars and the like. 57. That attitude may have a direct impact on consumer choices and could be very bad news for the U.S. economy. 58. That reality, Roberts said, stifled consumer choice and competition. 59. That kind of market power is poison for consumer choice, as well as the idea of lower rates, Cooper said. 60. The business is consolidating rapidly, though, a trend that may be reducing consumer choice by killing off both new and familiar brands. |