61.   Most of the NADBank projects will require user fees to recoup their cost.

62.   Patient groups worry, however, that increased user fees will only increase the influence of industry over the FDA.

63.   Raising their costs with a user fee would result in higher fares for their passengers, they say, and would hinder their growth.

64.   Rather, this is an opportunity to revive the much-corrupted user fee as the lodestar of transportation finance.

65.   Rather than require new user fees, the House bill would leave in place current funding practices, which combine user fees, taxes and government appropriations.

66.   Schulz said he doubted that user fees would end up falling disproportionately on discount carriers like Southwest.

67.   Several big airlines favor user fees, but low-fare carriers say it would force them to raise prices.

68.   So far, the patent office is not considering raising user fees.

69.   Southwest Chairman Herb Kelleher told a congressional panel last month that a user fee would impede the success of low-cost, low-fare carriers.

70.   Some advocate co-payments or user fees for doctor and hospital visits.