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.
INTERESTING FACTS. 1  The Ruby-throated Hummingbird female lays eggs about the size of peas. 2  Their migration north appears to be timed according to the appearance of certain flowers along their route. 3  These birds can fly fast either forward or backward and are also capable of hovering.