1.   This too put an added cost burden on the company.

2.   But there are some things businesses can do to lighten their health cost burden a bit.

3.   For one thing, the flexible plans are more likely to increase health costs, often just shifting much of the cost burden from employers to their employees.

4.   In this case, much of the cost burden is likely to fall on Medicare because most people with serious heart attacks are elderly.

5.   Many Western European officials agree with their American counterparts that something needs to be done to ease the cost burden of the large number of organizations.

6.   Without the cost burden, he said, his chain expanded much faster at home than abroad.

7.   The European Union decided Monday to postpone an international conference scheduled for later this month to raise billions of dollars to rebuild Bosnia and divide the cost burden.

8.   The Japanese government has long been known for protecting domestic industries, although that has shifted the cost burden on consumers.

9.   This creates inefficiency in local industry and consumers have to bear the unfair cost burden.