...United States. Recent bills that have caused tension in the United States as well as in the government include the Affordable Care Act, Voter Identification Law, and the Dream Act. The Affordable Care Act was created by the current president Barack Obama and since it has been introduced it has created much tension between him and Congress, and also between different political parties. The new Voter Identification Laws make it almost impossible for many people to vote, and discourages them from voting. The Dream Act will give illegal immigrants the right of citizenship for attending college or joining the U.S. military,...
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...Health care is not a civil right or a civil liberty even with the faulty belief the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights December 10, 1948 Article 25 proclaiming everyone has a right to health care (Article 25applies to the United States, here we live under our Constitutions and laws and not the United Nations. However, the misnomer that healthcare is a right or liberty is prominent in the United States and therefore, a credible topic. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) did not find that the affordable care act was a civil right or civil liberty but upheld, in a 5-4 decision, that the mandate part if you do not have health care the mandate is a tax payable to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and because it is a taxable the congress has the right to pass tax bills. (Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. Sebelius, 132 S. Ct. 2566, (2012)...
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...Sunnie Merritt English102 (online) Expository Essay July 29, 2010 Confusion Over the US Health Reform Bill The latest poll out today from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health-care-policy research organization, says only 27 percent of the public has been following the 2010 health reform debate closely. Despite this, more than half (56 percent) of Americans think health reform is more important than ever. Very smart people are zoning out of the health care reform debate because they think it’s just too complicated. The complexities of US health reform are a problem, because American citizens and politicians cannot make good decisions about an issue they do not clearly understand or have been misinformed. Defining the goals of reform is relatively easy. Implementing them is tough and that’s where people are made to feel stupid - partly by special interest groups who intentionally or unintentionally confuse the debate. According to John Lapook in an article posted on CBS News.com, at least one senator admits he has no intention of reading it. "I don't expect to actually read the legislative language because . . . the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever read in my life," Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) quotes to online news service in the article. Carper told CBSnews.com that the bill was "incomprehensible" and "hard stuff to understand. Carper stated he doubts his fellow members of the Senate Finance Committee will read their handiwork...
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...avert a government shutdown[->0] after midnight action in the House to delay President Obama[->1]'s healthcare law[->2], with both parties trading accusations Sunday about who would be to blame for an impasse. Neither the House nor Senate[->3] planned to meet Sunday, with fewer than 36 hours left to approve a new stopgap spending measure. Instead, members of Congress[->4] fanned out to the TV networks' Sunday news shows to react to mostly party-line votes the House took overnight to again send the spending bill back to the Senate with provisions to undermine the Affordable Care Act. Republicans[->5] have insisted that such provisions be part of any deal to keep federal agencies open once the new budget year begins Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz[->6] (R-Texas), who has assumed a lead role among conservatives in pursuing the “defund or delay” strategy, repeatedly argued Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid[->7] (D-Nev.) now stands in the way of a resolution. Cruz accused Reid of using "brute political force" to resist any changes in the healthcare law, which Cruz described as the "biggest job-killer in this country." "So far Majority Leader Harry Reid has essentially told the House of Representatives[->8] and the American people, 'Go jump in a lake,' " Cruz said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "If we have a shutdown, it will only be because when the Senate comes back, Harry Reid says, 'I refuse even to talk.' " Reid on Saturday called the Republicans' latest offer — a one-year...
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...Delivery of Human Service 6/29/2015 University of Phoenix Factors Influencing Social Policy Paper For the social policy assignment we chose to research an ad for the Affordable Care Act, also known as, Obamacare. This is a very touchy subject for the nation. We wanted to find an ad that used a fun way to present the Act in a lighter way. We thought that this ad accomplished that. Plus roller derby is always cool because it shows the strength that women can possess. When critiquing the ad we described the ad, assessed if the ad accurately portrayed the social policy, and the pros and cons of the ad. The ad that we have chosen for this assignment features the Roller Derby team members Sylivia’s Wrath, Craazy LuLu and Harper Bizarre Hell on Wheels of team Pain Killers. They ladies are looking very tough. Instead of the slogan got milk? It says got insurance? The words that are displayed next to the girls say that derby is dangerous and if you are going to play them you better have insurance so that you can be treated after they are finished. The ad also says that they have insurance and you too can have insurance thanks to Obamacare. The roller derby advertisement does not accurately portray the Affordable Health Care Act obamacare. The advertisement does not tell you that you have to have health care by March 2014. The advertisement does not tell you can purchase new coverage plans at any time. The advertisement does not tell you that if you have special circumstances...
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...chance to prove to the American people that this is a better and affordable health care law and should be allowed to be passed. This paper explains the benefits and advantages of Obamacare and also compares Obamacare to the health care system we previously had. OBAMACARE In recent years, there have been several political controversies and court proceedings on the Affordable Care Act: Obamacare. On March 23rd 2010 President Obama signed the affordable care act into law putting in place comprehensive reforms that improves access to affordable health coverage for everyone. We are now left with the question, is Obamacare a law that will benefit the people of this country, and how can we benefit from this law. I think Obamacare has given rise to many benefits which includes Protecting Consumer Rights, Better Access to Care with Affordable Coverage, the Strengthening and Expansion of Medicare and Medicaid. Obamacare protects the rights of people by preventing the discrimination of people with preexisting conditions. In the past, insurance companies have turned down people with preexisting conditions: They deny coverage to children who had asthma and were born with heart defects, or deny coverage to some seniors with chronic diseases like cancer and heart problems. Besides, they also put a life time cap on the amount of care they would pay for or cancel your coverage when you are sick. But the affordable care act creates a new patient bill of rights that protect people from this...
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...Health Care Bill and Impact on the Community Health care in the United States is a serious issue that involves all individuals and families alike. Many individuals and families in the United States are unable to receive accessible, affordable and quality health care treatment even though they work each day. Low income levels and a volatile, unstable economy is the cause of many middle class or impoverished individuals and families not being able to receive health care benefits. For many years, politicians have discussed the reformation of the health care system in the United States and H.R. 3950 will surely help the health care system and individuals and families with health care treatment. According to Holland (2010), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was created for individuals and families to ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and will help create the transformation within the health care system that is necessary to contain cost. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is suppose to provide coverage for more Americans and reduce the deficiency over the next ten years and beyond. According to Holland (2010), The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains nine titles addressing essential components of reform in: • Quality, affordable health care for all Americans; • The role of public programs; • Improving the quality and efficiency of health care; • Prevention of chronic disease and improving public...
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...-We Will be speaking about Obamacare * National health care plan aimed at reforming the American health care system. * ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’ (official name) * Signed in 2010 * Provide more Americans with affordable health care * Increase the rate of health insurance coverage * It also aims to regulate the health insurance industry and reducing spending in health care. * Insurance companies required to offer the same premium to all applicants of the same age and geographical location without regard to gender or most pre-existing conditions (excluding tobacco use). * Less competition * Lower pay for providers. * Increased coverage may actually raise health care costs. * Those who don't purchase insurance, and don't qualify for Medicaid or subsidies, will be assessed a tax of $95 * About 4 million people will wind up paying the tax rather than purchase health insurance. * Taxes will be raised on one million individuals * Pharmaceutical companies will pay an extra $84.8 billion in fees over the next ten years to pay for the ‘hole’ * About 4 million people will wind up paying the tax rather than purchase health insurance. * Taxes will be raised on one million individuals * Pharmaceutical companies will pay an extra $84.8 billion in fees over the next ten years to pay for the ‘hole’ * Over 50 million Americans previously could not afford health insurance * When sickness finally...
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...are; finding the right staff and keeping up with the changing regulatory environment. According to Conner (2013) one of the biggest challenges faced by organizations today is, “finding the right staff, retaining them, and ensuring they buy into the vision of the organization” (Finding the right staff). The key is to figure out how to deal with individual personalities, what motivates each employee, and develop the management accordingly. The other problem is the changing regulations regarding environment. According to Conner (2013), “the problems to be solved are to understand the meaning of regulation in your industry, its implications for your business, and to develop the skills necessary to deal with it. Two key areas are taxes and health care” (Regulation). The hiring process within an organization is one of the most important tasks to be fulfilled. The difference between good employees and great employees can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of the company. Great employees possess a habit of success and find ways of completing their jobs where good employees see an obstacle as a dead end. Competency is a must for a great employee. They must have knowledge and understanding of the position they are being hired for, know how to execute that knowledge, and be willing to commit to applying both. Servant leaders will tend to focus on how a person delivered the results they did, where standard leaders will focus on what the results were. Competency is an inherited trait...
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...Running head: AMERICA’S AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE CHOICES OF 2009 1 America’s Affordable Health Care Choices of 2009: Advanced Care Directives Denise Renna Ball State University Abstract This paper explores Section 1233 of Health Related (H.R.) Bill 3200, America’s Affordable Health Care Choices of 2009, introduced to the House of Representatives. Under this section of the bill, the Qualified Health Benefit Package (QHBP) would be required to explain end-of-life planning to individuals who seek this information. Currently physicians are not reimbursed for providing end-of-life planning for individuals on Medicare. Some larger groups such as the American Medical Association (AMA) are in favor of passing the bill. This paper examines groups in favor of the bill as presenting opposition from other groups regarding this piece of legislation. America’s Affordable Health Care Choices of 2009: Advanced Care Directives Health Related Bill The House of Representatives introduced H.R. bill 3200: America’s Affordable Health Care Choices of 2009 on July 14, 2009, as a means “to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes” (H.R. 3200-111th Congress, 2009). HR 3200 is an active bill that was referred to the House Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, and Budget,...
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...Committee of Education and Workforce: The committee’s jurisdiction is over education and labor. The Committee on Education and Labor also oversees federal programs dealing with education at all levels from preschool through high school to higher education. The first Committee was established on March 21, 1867 after the Civil War and the growth of American industry. The Committee in December 19, 1883, was divided into two standing committees which were the committee on education and committee on labor. In January 2, 1947, the Legislative Reorganization Act again combined the Committees and it renamed the Committee on Education and Labor. On January 4, 1995, the Committee was renamed again to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. The committee again was renamed finally on January 7, 1997, the Committee on Education and the Workforce. The committee of Education and Workforce has four subcommittees which are Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. In the committee there are seventeen Democrats and twenty-three Republicans. The chairman for this committee is Congressman John Kline for Minnesota. The issues and priorities for this committee during the 112th Congressional Session is giving employers the certainty, flexibility, and freedom to create jobs, and to conducted...
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...Government December 10, 2012 Obamacare In an attempt to create a solution to health care, President Barrack Obama came up with a universal healthcare program called the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Obamacare was signed into law on March, 2010. It has been the most significant repair to the United States healthcare since Medicare and Medicaid passed in 1965. In this paper, the key points that will be discussed are obamacare policy, it pros and cons, if it raises any issues with federalism and the policys effectiveness. Obamacare is aimed at helping the underinsured to gain insurance. With this plan everyone would have health insurance regardless of income, or anything that would stop the person from attaining health insurance. The Affordable Care Act is a watershed in U.S. public health policy. Through a series of extensions of, and revisions to, the multiple laws that together comprise the federal legal framework for the U.S. health-care system, the Act established the basic legal protections that until now have been absent: a near-universal guarantee of access to affordable health insurance coverage, from birth through retirement.(Rosenbaum, 2010) Obamacare is a name used by critics of President Obamas efforts to reform health care. Its a common term used to describe the Patient Protection and Affordable care Act of 2010. ObamaCare contains many benefits, especially for low and middle income families...
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...Nefitete Phelps HCS/235 September 9, 2015 Health Care Utilization Option 1 {Place Title Here} Health care reform in America is a fiery matter and the source of law meant to make health care obtainable to American people. Another goal of this legislation is to cut down the growth in health care spending. In the past presidential elections have been the stage used to promote health care reform. Over the last few years health care reform has taken great strides under President Barack Obama. This essay will discuss the many different ways recent health care reform measures have expanded or inhibited access to health care to Americans. It will also discuss how changes to access could possibly lead to influences in utilization, Concepts of what universal health care might be, and how current care reflects or contrasts with this. In addition to the thing listed above, this essay will recount a rather personal experience with health care expansion either negative or positive health care reform. The (PPACA) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short was created and signed into law in March 23, 2010. This law is to make sure that all Americans have access to health care at an affordable rate and to help take hold of the ever rising health care cost. Disputed from the beginning, this reform measure created multiple opportunities for individual American’s to access insurance for preventative care, immunizations, and even those with pre-existing conditions...
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...Benefits of the Affordable Care Act Benefits of the Affordable Care Act In this essay I will be discussing the benefits of the new affordable care act and how it has impacted as well as my local community. Firstly, the affordable care act allows people who did not have access to insurance or be able to afford the insurance through their employer to get insurance coverage at a reasonable cost. Second, the affordable care act does not allow for insurance companies to not pay a claim based on it being a pre-existing condition which was the case prior to the affordable care act being passed. Also the affordable care act gives access to women for preventative health services which is important to me, my wife and my two daughters. In the following paragraphs I will explain the reasons why I support the affordable care act and reasons that everyone should support the new health care law. One of the reasons why I support the affordable care act is that if you would lose your coverage through your employer and need to continue health coverage the cost of the affordable care act insurance is much more reasonable then having to purchase the cobra insurance, which many of the times is about four times as expensive as your insurance through your employer. The affordable card act has directly impacted a state that I used to live in which was Kentucky. It has been reported that nearly four hundred and fifty thousand people now have health insurance in Kentucky that previously...
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...The Affordable Care Act (President Obama 2009) and the Health Security Act (President Clinton 1993) legislation has similar attempts and dissimilarities. Both administrations bottom line of health care were to close the gap of the uninsured. The difference stood with the involvement of government and the Affordable Care Act was placed into law and the Health Security Act was not. Contrarily, the Obama administration in 2010 revamped Clinton’s Health Care Act that was sold to the general public. This essay will compare and contrast Affordable Health Care with Health Reform plan, discuss the pros and cons of Affordable, and my recommendation on improvement on legislation. The two major legislative for The Affordable Care Act and The Health Security Act stood at non-existent after the Republican Party were faced with both Health Care Reforms. The support of the public were also absent. Campaigns were second highhandedly uses to persuade the public that both Acts were blatantly coercing citizens, complex, more spending with lower quality service and more government. The Clinton administration pressed to start the kickoff of an 100 day goal, made by the president to sell the reform proposal that was not ready for Capitol Hill. Moreover, the Health Security Act, was upheld by Hilary Clinton, that was unsuccessful executing the unite of the Democratic Party, which caused absence of union that led to the downfall of the bill. The method used by the Obama administration proceeded...
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