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.
Starlings fly at around 37 to 47 mph. Mockingbirds fly at around 15 to 25 mph. Smaller birds fly at a similar rate to that of that of the mockingbird. the fastest bird can mean several things. The wandering allbotross is the fastest kenatic glider at 72 mph. The homing pigeon is the fastest domestic bird at 91 miles an hour. The perigrine falcon is the fastest diver at 120 to 240 miles an hour.