If and when outside resources are required to honor their promises, these entitlements become transfer programs, not insurance programs.
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U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials have stated that government contracts are not jobs programs.
Ditto for pretty much any policyholder, more than likely, so why not craft programs and campaigns intended to aggressively inform them?
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It was Obama's tone, not his programs that needed to be improved.
One of those past agreements -- to increase the debt ceiling in 2011-- included the mandatory spending cuts that cut across all agencies of government but not entitlement programs.
So we've put enormous effort not only in providing additional funding for early childhood education, but also to improve the quality of early childhood education -- because not all programs work perfectly.
People who are not personally invested in what's been going on, they're not - these are not their programs that they're either trying to put in place or had been in place and aren't working.
Known in Washington jargon as sequestration, the forced spending cuts to the military and other government agencies -- but not entitlement programs that drive chronic federal deficits -- were intended to motivate Congress to come up with a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan sought by both sides.
That is not the case for programs that have not been updated.
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The fact that we have folks with HIV who are on waiting lists to get access to treatment or the fact that our state programs are not coordinated with our federal programs.
In other words, to the extent these fraud detection programs have failed, the message is that the fault lies not with the programs themselves, but with the data on which they depend.
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This is why states offload these programs to companies like Amerigroup and Coventry, and why many states do not want the programs expanded under Obamacare.
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Detractors point out that buybacks artificially increase earnings per share, since net income does not change. (In other words, though each slice of the earnings pie is bigger, the size of the earnings pie does not change.) Repurchase programs also do not place the same level of fiscal responsibility on executives that dividend payments do.
Not just protecting programs, but actively seeking to expand and improve the ones we have, and spend money not just shore up the deficit.
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If not for these programs, I would have died as my husband and I are broke as a result of medical bills not covered by these two entities.
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Illegal immigrants would not be eligible for the expanded Medicaid programs and would not receive subsidies.
There is probably room in the market for two or three dozen quality, undergraduate chemistry programs in the US (not counting pre-med programs, which are different).
And roughly the same number noted that their participation in loyalty programs does not motivate them to stick with the companies that provide the programs.
When inevitable cuts come, the first to go are programs not required by law.
It appears to me OSU, as Tresselized, is not unlike other programs that have had is a systemic problem.
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As this chart demonstrates, the additional trillion dollars in spending came from somewhere else, not the retirement programs.
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And it's important to remember that two-thirds of the farmers in this country are not on the programs at all.
The biggest value of the program now, though, may not be the programs, advising or even introductions the firm makes.
With those three apps available as free downloads, Win Me's big draw is a brace of programs not available in stores.
"Congressional Republicans should not be cutting programs like this that are making a down payment on our future health, " said Mrs.
The company has also said it has not participated in programs with the National Security Agency to collect Internet communications without warrants.
We thus need an explanation for why this debate has erupted around Medicare Part A, which provides hospital insurance, but not around other programs.
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By the same logic, not all degree programs are created equal.
Yet Weight Watchers International (nyse: WTW - news - people ), the largest provider of weight-loss services, is not marketing its programs to teens.
So cuts to next-generation programs not only limit the benefit for the military, they also threaten to slow the advance of commercial applications that benefit the public.
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