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11. if 5% of my merchandise gets shoplifted, i can't raise my prices 5%?

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 01:07 PM

Sep 2014

but you're saying i can raise the prices for any other reason whatsoever?

this is a confusing and confused position.

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Charging paying patients more to cover the cost of patients who don't pay [View all] PlanetaryOrbit Sep 2014 OP

That shouldn't be allowed either. n/t. PlanetaryOrbit Sep 2014 #3

if 5% of my merchandise gets shoplifted, i can't raise my prices 5%? CreekDog Sep 2014 #11

+1 Indeed. Glassunion Sep 2014 #17

Agree. We need single payer. NT NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #2

bad debt is a cost for any business dembotoz Sep 2014 #4

Health care should not be a liberalhistorian Sep 2014 #8

You need to substitute "can't" for "don't", because liberalhistorian Sep 2014 #7

That's the way everything works WestCoastLib Sep 2014 #12

but consider this. drray23 Sep 2014 #14

Not the best analogy at all. Glassunion Sep 2014 #16

I suspect sometimes hospitals just say that daredtowork Sep 2014 #18

You know what? KitSileya Sep 2014 #19

the part I don't like is onethatcares Sep 2014 #20