Word: savings
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...recent move to convert all of its grounds to organic grass is another impressive initiative. What started as a one-acre pilot project is now slated to be a full organic overhaul, an encouraging sign that the university is willing to seize worthy ideas that help the environment and save money...
Wake Forest allowed only one shot on goal from the Crimson men in the first half of the game off the foot of senior Andre Akpan, but the Demon Deacons’ goalkeeper Akira Fitzgerald made the save...
...been easy. His advisers told him the number, based on unproven assumptions, was too wobbly to survive a legislative debate. The truth was, they said, nobody knows exactly how much money could be saved by reforming health-care-delivery systems, as Obama and both houses of Congress have proposed. All they knew was that such reforms, which aim to restructure payment systems, decrease costs and increase the quality of care, are the only promising path forward to save the country from fiscal Armageddon. "You have never done it before, so how are you going to quantify it?" says Peter Orszag...
...Obama has barnstormed the country this year, he has been forced to talk more about the problem - a health-care inflation that could bankrupt the nation - than how much Americans would save if the broken system were fixed. From the Sunday news shows to David Letterman's overstuffed chair, Obama has warned about the rocketing increase in health-care insurance - 5.5% last year, according to one study - and promised to bend the cost curve down in the future. He has described changes to the health-care system that could bring down costs for families and long-term government deficits...
...Committee has shown much more determination than House Democrats in holding the fiscal line. According to the official government accounting, which leaves out most of the systemic changes, the current House bill would moderately grow the deficit over the next 20 years, while the Senate Finance Committee bill would save nearly $1 trillion in the same period...