The recently enacted Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 will result in the most significant savings to Medicare in its 31-year history$393.8 billion over 10 years. The Medicare reforms contributed significantly to the goal of a balanced budget; in fact, changes to the program account for 73 percent of total savings.y reducing the average annual rate of growth in net Medicare spending from the current 8.5 percent to about 6 percent in 2007, the BBA helps extend the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Part A), at least until 2007.
Hummingbirds can fly in any direction â forward, backward, up, down, side-to-side and even upside down â and they do so by flapping their wings at an incredible rate of between 60-200 times per second. When they feed on the nectar of flowers, they have to hover above the flower.
Life in the Fastlane: A ruby-throated hummingbirds heart beats from 225 times a minute when the bird is at rest to more than 1,200 times per minute when its flying around. Its wings beat about 70 times per second in direct flight and over 200 times per second while diving.