Given looming cuts in Medicare payments to providers, a little-noticed study of the impact of payment cuts in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is even more intriguing.
In a letter to Clinton, Gingrich and Dole, R-Kansas, called the savings and tax cuts a "down payment" on balancing the budget, and said they want to attach the proposal to legislation extending the government debt ceiling.
"We are hoping that at the end of the day, we're still talking to each other and we can make a down payment" on balancing the federal budget, said Ryan, R-Wisconsin.
It wasn't known how much the payment would offset the film's budget.
Many energy providers offer so-called budget-bill or level-payment plans that allow you to pay a set monthly amount for energy.
For example, the bill includes a pet idea of White House budget chief Peter Orszag, called the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
The payment formula came to be as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and has never been corrected permanently by Congress.
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By underestimating the savings that can come from improved Medicare payment procedures and other cost-control initiatives, the budget office leads Congress to think that politically unpopular cost-cutting initiatives will have, at best, only modest effects.
Over the long term in the pro-forma scenario, the accounts result in breathtaking reductions in government spending, because the payment of Social Security benefits is shifted out of the federal budget altogether, financed instead through the accounts in the private sector.
But the 2012 budget that he put forward is very much a down payment on that.
To make up for the larger monthly payment of a 15-year mortgage, we had to make some budget cuts.
The health law also includes the much-criticized Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a panel that would recommend Medicare budget savings to Congress and the White House starting in 2014.
His budget specified these savings despite saying that he would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key Medicare cost-control measure included in Obamacare.
In his proposed budget, he plans to give even greater powers to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a panel created by the new health law to contain Medicare spending.
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