The Congressional Budget Office now estimates that Part D will cost 46% less than initially projected between 2004 and 2013.
You'd still have the transaction cost because you'd have to train everyone to speak English.
Part D is the most cost-effective and successful entitlement program the federal government runs.
This threat makes little sense: You'd think it would cost a bank MORE to process lots of little transactions than a few big transactions.
The most expensive part of making a screen 3-D ready is the cost of buying digital projectors which will be covered by the DCIP financing.
While Part D is a voluntary program, Medicare recipients have to seriously review their health care needs in advance because the cost of Part D increases each year for individuals who choose not to participate immediately upon eligibility.
Germany entered the single currency handicapped, they say, by a strong D-mark and the cost of unification.
"Those samples are going to cost the industry millions I'd suggest over the course of the next year and that asks the question where the responsibility for that cost lies, " he said.
Over the past six years, the CBO has lowered its long-term cost projections for Part D by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Because of the private market competition, and incentives for seniors to choose lower cost plans, Part D costs have run 40% below projections.
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"You'd better know how much your ticket cost to fly here, "Yost warned the Bergen newcomers.
The company also said it is considering adding 3-D videos, perhaps at a premium cost.
The production cost of a 3-D movie is 10% to 20% higher than that of a regular film.
The surge in the cost of gasoline KO'd the sales of highly profitable vehicles seen as gas-guzzlers, particularly SUVs.
Then we'd get more economic output at no cost--what a boon to productivity!
In the long run, we'd probably see more innovative low-cost learning alternatives, such as the free online courses being offered by Stanford, Princeton, and MIT professors through the new ventures Udacity, Coursera, and MITx.
But having transplanted the heaviest and most costly component to the c, you'd wind up with only marginal improvements in cost and fuel economy, and a smaller, crummier car to put them in.
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Instead of a cost-plus mentality, we'd have the opposite--an intense emphasis on productivity.
He showed a slide of a boy in South Africa, born without fingers on his right hand, who received a low-cost prosthetic made by a 3-D printer.
That is, if you do at least 392 loads of laundry a year, live in one of 18 states where electricity costs are at or above the national average of 7.8 cents a kilowatt-hour and if your opportunity cost--the return you'd get by investing in something other than a more expensive washer--is 6% or less.
Thus your eventual annual cost would be the same if you'd chosen a credit union card bearing an interest rate of 10% (yes, they do exist).
Mitch Daniels, former Bush administration budget chief, told me GM and Chrysler would have been easier to turn around, and at much less cost to the taxpayer, if they'd gone through the traditional bankruptcy route, stripping them of their pension liabilities and debts.
Russia retains thousands of missiles, but the cost of maintaining them is high and he'd like to spend the money elsewhere.
And we'd certainly want an answer to the question: Must the test cost so much?
Katzenberg brought studios and exhibitors together to craft a cost-sharing solution to pay for digital 3-D-enabled projectors.
Daniel Moynihan, D-New York, says the consumer price index overstates the cost of living between .7 and .2 percent.
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Ironically, Medicare Part D happens to be the rare example of a government program that has cost far less than anticipated.
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He had no savings, and if he'd elected to claim bankruptcy, Rayburn would have had to charge the cost on his credit card.
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But companies seem to be balking at the cost--or keeping quiet out of fear they'd only be making it easier for the other side.
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