's "Drive Safe and Save" program, woo consumers with promises that they won't pay more if they agree to let the insurance company peek over their shoulders as they drive.
In fact, a new CBO analysis found that this policy proposal will actually save the Medicare program over time.
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The program could save Medicare beneficiaries 15 to 35 percent, according to White House officials, though a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services put the figure slightly lower, at 10 to 25 percent.
To me, that's sort of like saying that historically African-Americans are likely to have high rates of diabetes and hypertension, so instead of launching a program to save some from developing the disease, let's wait for a comprehensive plan where all can be saved at one time.
Users don't pay extra to use the service but the locker program helps Amazon save on certain shipping costs.
And it can certainly be argued that a more competitive system could weed out the bad docs we might be forced to see by some HMO program looking to save money.
Why, for example, does almost every program force users to save their work?
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Unfortunately, what the plan would not have impacted on is the long-term cost trajectory of Medicare as it would do little to nothing to save federal dollars in the Medicare program.
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When a technology prodigy invents a new digital device or program that can enhance or save lives, he or she will have created something for all of us.
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But proposing improvements of vehicles that already exist will highlight the fact that the government could save money by simply killing the whole program and doing a good job of refurbishing Humvees.
"We will develop a program according to what is best for the international community and what will save lives, " Aline Plancon, head of Interpol's counterfeiting and pharmaceutical crime program, told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.
For the Obamacare bashers out there, you should know that the changes the law makes to Medicare are very much based on supporting and encouraging ACOs in the belief that this approach will save large sums of money to the Medicare program while improving the quality of care.
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The plan is to raise money for Save the Children's Rewrite the Future program, which is focused on educating children whose lives have been disrupted by armed conflict, and Kiva's effort to provide small loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world who need capital to improve their lives.
PrimaVision has produced an award-winning computer program for designing garments that helps manufacturers save time and money.
Paradoxically trying to save time, he poured himself into writing a program to summarize content in an easily digestible preview.
His brief statement of principles sounded similar to the Senate bipartisan outline, save for his notable omission of a guest-worker program.
That will save us some money, but the core functions of the program are sustained.
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So if you look at a balanced package even within the entitlement programs, it turns out that you can save trillions of dollars while maintaining the core integrity of the program.
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"I want to make sure we're not adding a big additional burden to the Medicare program, which we need to figure out how to save, because it's going bankrupt, " Lieberman said.
For example, research has shown that a dollar invested in a high quality home visitation program to support first time mothers in challenging circumstances can save more than five dollars over time in social services that the family would otherwise require.
The European Central Bank unleashed its open-ended bond buying program after Mario Draghi promised to do all he can to save the monetary union, and Fed chief Ben Bernanke announced his version of open-ended bond purchases, dubbed QE3.
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He says the budget contains a variety of things that will save money, and he offers up a Department of Health and Human Services program as an example.
Scientists at MVP - a partnership between the World Health Organization and the Seattle-based Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - believe their vaccine could help to save thousands of lives each year.
On Friday, here at the Clinton Global Initiative, in Chicago, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and FHA Commissioner Carol Galante announced yet another: a program to pool together mortgage loans on the brink of default, and save them.
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One program is its "Every Woman Every Child" initiative, which aims to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015.
The argument that taxpayer money is needed to save or create jobs in America was the implicit purpose of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) and the explicit purpose of the auto company bailouts.
For example, you can save money when treating your student to a meal at one of the restaurants participating in the Blue Savings Program.
The Energy Star program was created to promote energy efficiency by letting consumers know which appliances, which electronics would save electricity and, therefore, would save them money over time.
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