It is usually divided into enactment and realization cost.
The CBO said of the plan that it was possible seniors would face higher costs, and its enactment could result in, "reduced access to health care; diminished quality of care; increased efficiency of health care delivery; less investment in new, high-cost technologies; or some combination of those outcomes".
The processes of business entail at least some effort to ensure the sympathetic enactment and enforcement of legislation, since costs and earnings are affected by tax rates and government regulations.
From their enactment in 1965, Medicare and Medicaid costs have also grown faster in most years than the economy.
It would delay enactment of a controversial tax on high-cost employer-sponsored insurance plans and, in a nod to the concerns of older Americans, do away with the unpopular "doughnut hole" in the Medicare prescription drug program.
I was struck by a common thread in the responses I heard: Enactment of the original 1994 assault weapons ban cost Democrats control of Congress.
Although repealing the export subsidy would save the government about $50 billion over 10 years, enactment of the new bill would mean a net cost to the Treasury of $120 billion over the same period.
For the skeptics, much of the debate that preceded the enactment of the NFSA revolved around the issue of cost of the NFSA and its impact on the economy.
But distrust of A. & P.'s power, and the threat that it posed to the livelihood of small grocers, sparked a national campaign against chain stores, which led to the enactment of laws designed to limit competition and to restrain cost-cutting by big retailers.
"Black Hawk Down," a realistic and action-packed re-enactment of the battle on the streets of Mogadishu that cost several hundred Somalis and 18 American soldiers their lives in October 1993, came within inches of being the first major Hollywood film to directly address the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
