They're revising the estimates of how much the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit will cost--revising them, amazingly enough, downward.They're they're Contraction of they are. they're be revising the estimates of how much the new Medicare Medicare, national health insurance program in the United States for persons aged 65 and over and the disabled. It was established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and is now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. prescription-drug benefit will cost--revising them, amazingly Adv. 1. amazingly - in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years" astonishingly, surprisingly amazingly adv → extraordinariamente enough, downward. Last year, program administrators estimated that the drug benefit would cost the federal government $38 billion in 2006. Now they think it will cost $31 billion. The cost estimate for 2006 through 2015 has also dropped, from $926 billion to $797 billion. State governments are saving money, too. The administration says that the lower cost estimates are evidence that its plan to have companies compete to deliver benefits is working. But there are several caveats. The program has just begun, and estimates could go back up. Whatever the numbers, we have not figured out how we are going to pay the bill for Medicare over the next ten years, let alone past then. And there are already calls for legislation to expand the benefits. The new estimates are good news, but not quite enough reason to bust out "Bust Out" is the twenty-third episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the tenth of the show's second season. It was written by Frank Renzulli, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by John Patterson and originally aired on Sunday March 19 2000. the champagne. |
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