The new system is based on a series of expert projections on how people will behave.
"Expert projections show that more than one trillion dollars would be taken out of the Medicaid program between the years 2020 and 2036," Collins said.
Results were obtained by Monte-Carlo simulation, based on engineering surveys and an IEA GHG CCR study, as well as plant performance information and expert projections on carbon prices, coal prices and electricity prices.
With the expert lighting, projections, and sound effects, the setting really looks alive.
The scope of the destruction, officials say, far exceeded the worst-case models in experts' tsunami projections.
Across the country, pension funds have set unrealistically high expectations for future income, experts say, projections that could strain already tight city and state budgets.
These sources are based on information about health professionals (e.g. surveys among health professionals, registration databases), about the demand for care (e.g. population projections, expert estimations) and about the training of health professionals (e.g. the number of female students, drop-out rate).
Experts said the projections were based on significant assumptions in future energy prices, which have been extremely volatile over recent years – last year saw gas and electricity prices double, but now household bills are falling again.
Ever since social thinkers began trying to predict the pace of population growth a century or two ago, the people being counted have been surprising the experts and confounding projections.
Some experts say these projections are inflated considering that, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, oil and gas production last year comprised 400,000 workers, down from 538,000 in 2014, while coal mining employed 54,000.
A burst of premium-pricing for solar energy, of the kind now on offer in 18 European countries, will stimulate a very fast-growing market". Experts said the projections were based on significant assumptions in future energy prices, which have been extremely volatile over recent years – last year saw gas and electricity prices double, but now household bills are falling again.
