>>>>Let me share with you another "little" piece of the puzzle that adds to the cost of health-care. I know many people who work as programmers, developers, DBA, (techies) for insurance companies. Each probably makes at minimum $100,000. Each, for sure, spends 50% of the time (or more) at work browsing the web, checking personal email, participating in political discussions on UT <g>, checking their investment portfolios, etc.
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>>>OTOH, nobody else does that, only programmers.
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>>>>Could be a huge savings if we cut some of them <g>.
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>>>Just one huge savings?
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>>>(Really, nobody so far was able to explain to me how did "savings" become singular)
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>>Yeap. I should have left out the article "a" in front of savings.
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>I once googled "a huge savings" and "a huge saving" (with quotation marks), and the number of hits was around 4:1 for "it's a singulars".
I do believe that "savings" is singular. It just does not sound right if you say (or I hear) "this is a bank where I keep my saving." It has to be "savings". I think "saving" is an adjective but not a noun. But I don't really know what I am talking about <g>
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