...1960’s Essay by Hailey Kotz The Nineteen Sixties was a decade that changed America forever. The topics that arose during the sixties were not small. When they were accomplished or challenged, the outcome changed American society forever. Most legislative bills passed in the sixties still remain today. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was created in August of 1964 by the Economic Opportunity Act. The OEO was a part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s social and economic plans known as the “Great Society” and the “War on Poverty”. When it was created, the OEO coordinated the Job Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, work training and study programs, community action agencies including Head Start, adult education, loans for the rural poor and small businesses, work experience programs and Volunteers in Service to America. In the 1960 presidential election campaign John F. Kennedy argued for a new Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights bill was brought before Congress in 1963 and in a speech on television on 11th June, Kennedy pointed out that: "The Negro baby born in America today, regardless of the section of the nation in which he is born, has about one-half as much chance of completing high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day; one third as much chance of completing college; one third as much chance of becoming a professional man; twice as much chance of becoming unemployed; about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 a year; a life expectancy...
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...Essay 1 Our nation pursues the ideal that what we look like or where we come from should not determine the benefits or burdens that we bear in our society. Unfortunately, for African Americans, one of the largest minority groups within the United States, this is not a reality. In fact, life has been altered from the moment their lives began as an individual of color. Today, many people tend to remember the victories of African Americans that include abolition of slavery, desegregation, the civil rights movement, and the right to vote before women. People tend to forget the centuries of ugly racism, oppression and violence. The times of slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynching and segregation along with the hardship of having no political voice. Many disregard that for every social policy throughout history with what appeared to be an open door, just became another obstacle for Blacks and step up for Whites. Social policies and government programs have neglected and shortchanged African Americans for decades. Today, African Americans continue to face economic, social and health disparities within society when compared to its white counterparts. African Americans are struggling with unemployment and poverty. According to Fletcher (2013) in 2012, the black unemployment rate was 14.0 percent, 2.1 times the white unemployment rate (6.6 percent). This rate is higher than the average national unemployment rate of 13.1 percent. For those African Americans who are employed, many are unable...
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... or one is opposed to it. Whatever your feelings are regarding this issue, there is no denying that gay marriage will be an issue for debate for a very long time. While religion may say it is wrong many people believe gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights as straight couples and do not deserve to be treated differently. Webster’s dictionary defines marriage as n., (1) the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual or contractual relationship recognized by law,(2) the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage>. This change in definition was made in 2003. Marriage should be about getting married to that special someone that you love, it is not just a piece of paper that ties us together. It also involves legal, economic and social aspects as well. Civil unions and domestic partnerships are discussed every day in society, but neither is the same as a “legal” marriage, and are not afforded the same rights as straight married couples. Health insurance is difficult enough for married couples without the challenge being faced by same sex couples. Every state, as well as every insurance company has a different set of policies, rules, options and benefits. Now a new batch of standards is arising as the Affordable Care Act begins to take effect. In California and other states,...
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...They viewed the Constitution as giving the government too much power to the federal government which encouraged consolidation. The Anti-Federalist argued that such wide-spread allocation of power would trample on the rights of the people and states. State rights were the “theme song” of the Anti-Federalist. The Federalist, discussed next, insisted the Constitution in fact guaranteed the protection of individual and state rights. The Anti-Federalist would propose a compromise. They would approve of the Constitution if it were coupled with a Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights affirmed the federal government was prohibited from infringing upon the people’s civil liberties. Additionally, the Bill of Rights assured the states that they would retain jurisdiction and control over most civil liberty disputes between States and...
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...Ethics Paper Organizations today are constantly under watch because of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Today an organization must take specific measures to protect an individual’s private health information. As technology advances with the coming future, protection as become increasing difficult, covering all the basis and guidelines brought forth by HIPAA laws. A major concern of the federal government is an intended or unintended breach of HIPAA regulations. Along with HIPAA, came the creation of the Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule according to Mir, (2011), “restricts the use and disclosure of health information except by the individual, persons granted access by the individual, or as authorized and required by the privacy rule” (p. 11, para. 2). In 2009, President Obama endorsed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).The ideals of HIPAA was growing Is this essay helpful? Upgrade your account to read more and access more than 470,000 just like it! get better grades quickly, the growth was complete with the aid of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), which is a part within the ARRA. This growth not only covered health care providers and health care organization, but also the organization’s business associates. Everyone within an organization is responsible to protect health information, and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has no problem enforcing these new guidelines. Especially if there...
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...There are many issues that may arise in concern to a patient’s privacy. There were no specific laws years ago that protected a patients privacy and rights. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) which was signed in August of 1996 which became a law under President Bill Clinton (Physicians Billing Associates International, 2006). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act includes provisions for: health insurance portability, tax- related provisions, fraud and abuse control, revenue and offset provisions, group health plan requirements, and administrative simplification requirements (Physicians Billing Associates International, 2006). The HIPPA act was put into place as a standard law used to protect a patient’s personal health and medical records nationwide. This act was created to help health care workers to keep better control of a patient’s personal information. HIPPA has a privacy rule that concerns an individual’s health plans; the rule helps to provide health care workers information that would be needed to transmit an individual’s vision, health, prescription, and any other type of medical information safely. This essay will discuss how Rite Aid pharmacy informs customers of how his or her personal information is disclosed and how he or she is protected against violations of their rights, ensuring customers that his or her information will continue to remain to stay protected and that the HIPPA privacy laws are continued to be followed...
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...Jackie Williams ObamaCare (Final) Grantham University ObamaCare (Final) This essay is being written to debate the advantages and disadvantages of ObamaCare, aka Affordable Care Act (ACA), for the American people. While many are elated and view the government as taking responsibility for those who in the past have not seen a doctor on a regular basis due to having no insurance, there are still others who believe that the passage of the law will be detrimental to the country’s economy. Many are concerned that individuals will no longer have the choice of what type of medical attention they receive because the government will make those decisions for them. The truth is the Affordable Care Act requires certain types of coverage and ends discrimination that has led to higher costs and cancellations for women and people with pre-existing medical conditions. “The new ACA is a law aimed at reforming the American healthcare system. Its main focus is on providing more Americans with access to affordable health insurance, improving the quality of healthcare, regulating the health insurance industry, and reducing health care spending in the US.” In spite of the many attempts by the GOP to overthrow the ACA, the fact is that it is not Government provided healthcare, but an approach by the government to subsidize and regulate private health insurance and expand Government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid. There are ongoing arguments between Democrats, Republicans...
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...our society. Many reviewers can be access using online to make work easier and efficient. Our examinees take the civil service exam and they rely on their books to access some information to review. It is an important thing that ECSERR should have because it helps a lot in many ways such as reviewing, updating and accessing data. It also helps a lot in such a way of viewing of questionnaire same as civil service to know that format inside. Having ECSERR can help more chance of passing. This Application is applicable to all android phones, more valuable especially for under-employed, it takes some ideas and information about the facts of Civil service. The Civil service reviewer is one major problem for us to know how to review without a particular book of reviewer. 1.2 Background Of The Study One of the greatest challenges in most of the examinee today is to review without the particular book of reviewer in Civil service examination. This application will serve as a digital reviewer that you can take anywhere with you to refresh and enhance your knowledge regarding the exam. ECSERR can use whether offline or online. The offline purpose is to review without any access to internet and the online purpose is to know when, where, how and etc., the data about the Civil Service examinations to familiarized about the questions and to have an idea what Civil Service Examinations importance. 1.3 Conceptual Framework INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT * Set a time ...
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...of the Great Depression is again the issue of debate between many people in the US. In the 1930’s then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt along with former President Theodore Roosevelt pushed for universal healthcare reform but it was not passed because it was opposed by the American Medical Association (AMA), and almost the entire general American public as being socialist and un-American. But in 2010 the 111th congress passed the President Obama’s healthcare reform bill, this time without a public opinion. The bill calls for a healthcare modeled after those of the most industrialized countries in the world like Canada and Britain. Countries where at any given moment nearly 900,000 citizens are waiting for admission into national health service hospitals and where shortages of supplies and money cause the cancellations of over 50,000 operations a year. People in these countries may wait as long as 25 weeks for heart surgery and an average of over a year for a hip replacement. Many individuals suffer from chronic pain and may even die before they receive treatment under this type of healthcare. Obama’s universal healthcare is a mistake that will not do any good for this country and more importantly the people who live in it. Firstly, the costs associated with the law are completely outrageous. In order to expand healthcare to 45 million Americans is estimated to cost over $1 trillion. The introduction of computerized medical records and other technological changes...
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...African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement Destiny McClenningham Anderson University Introduction: “Vulnerable Populations” are subgroups who possess specific characteristics that distinguish them from others in the population (Jansson, 2005).The group I choice to focus on was African Americans. African or black Americans are define is an ethnic group of citizens or residents of the United States with total or partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa(Foner & Garraty,1991). The time I choice to focus on with my group was the civil rights movement. This era play a key role in African American history. What is the African American history leading up to this time? What was going on during this era? What social policy was affected during this time? History: There was a lot of history leading up to the civil rights movement. In the late 1950s and 1960s there was an increase in racial violence and protests in the South(Jansson). A 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation African Americans in the South still inhabited a unequal world(Foner & Garraty). “Jim Crow” laws at the local state levels barred them from businesses, schools, public bathrooms, transportations, and theaters from juried and legislatures(Foner & Garraty). In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court shut down the “separate but equal” doctrine that formed the basis for state-sanctioned discrimination(Foner & Garraty). This event draw national and international...
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...The Structures of Health and Social Care Provision- Introduction to Essay- During this essay I will be discussing the overall structure of social care provision in England. I will outline the different types of care provided by social services and what barriers may occur to prevent one from being able to use them. I will be analysing the structure of both the new and old social care provision, and discussing the changes which have been put in place. Lastly, I will concentrate on primary and secondary care, and looking at different types of regulation methods to ensure that social services are up to the government’s standards. The Structure of Social Care Provision- The Office of the Director is the central office at NIH (National Institutes of Health). It is responsible for setting policies, managing, planning and coordinating all of the activities for all of the NIH components. The Office of the Director is directly in charge of the Children’s Division, the Family Support Division, the MO HealthNet Division, the Division of Youth Services and the Information Technology Services Division. However, it holds responsible for all Divisions. The Children’s Division looks after children and young people; it includes services such as adoption services, foster care, abuse and neglect investigations and the child welfare manual. The Family Support Division helps to ensure that families achieve an appropriate level of self-support and care through needs...
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...Hayden Landry 250 868 235 Prof. Narain Preferential Health Care Health is a very important aspect of our everyday lives. The health of an individual and a nation are crucial to the continued progression of said persons, for without our health, we are all but useless. In this essay I seek to examine the benefits of the public healthcare system over it’s private counterpart, not only in Canada, but any country attempting to utilize their society to the fullest. I will argue that the welfare-state liberalistic approach is much better because it seeks to pool the resources of the many and regulate/distribute it to the few in dire need, hopefully resulting in a diminishing number of sick and homeless. I begin my essay by highlighting the importance and function of both the welfare state liberalist’s public heath care and the neoconservative private health care. My argument stands on the grounds that public healthcare in Canada is more tenable because it works for the common good of all people, regardless of socioeconomic class while also placing a primary focus on efficiency, instead of profitability. A viable counterargument is that most working people do not find it ‘fair’ to have their hard-earned money taken to support the lazy or poor(welfare), although in reality the vast majority of these ‘lazy’ poor people or those outside of a private healthcare system are not in the position out of free will. As we examine the positives and negatives of both systems it becomes increasingly...
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...Short on Detail Report on Universal Health Coverage Sujatha Rao The recommendations of the Planning Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Access to Universal Healthcare are significant because they make explicit the need to contextualise health within the rights. However, the problem with the report is that it does not ask why many of the same recommendations that were made by previous committees have not been implemented. The HLEG neither recognises the problems, constraints and compulsions at the national, state and district levels nor offers any solutions on how to deal with them. I The author is grateful to Sunil Nandraj for his insightful comments and suggestions which helped in writing this article. Sujatha Rao (ksujatharao@hotmail.com) is a former secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. n October 2010 the Planning Com mission constituted the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The group in its report submitted in late 2011 made sev eral recommendations pertaining to human resources for health, access to drugs, social determinants of health, governance, financing, and people’s par ticipation. A majority of the recommen dations find resonance in earlier expert committee reports. The recommendations made in earlier reports include universal health cover age as a right of every citizen (Bhore, 1946; constantly raised by civil society); increasing public health spending to 3% of GDP (National Commission...
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...would liberate the American people from crisis into a bright new beginning. In his Inauguration speech, he claimed to mend the financial crisis by stimulating jobs and laying a “new foundation for growth” (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). He promised to rebuild the Nation’s foundations such as roads, bridges, electric grids, and digital lines, to revive the prosperity and importance of science, to increase the care and lower the cost of health care, to mend the threat of global warming, to enact peace with Afghanistan, to withdraw from Iraq, and to transform the educational system to meet the conditions of a new era (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). Throughout his first year as president Obama has enacted many policies and regulations such as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Health Care Bill. However, has Obama stayed true to his original promises stated throughout his campaigns, in his Inauguration speech, as well as his first State of Union speech. Has Obamba’s first year been a success or a failure? This essay will explore the history of Obama’s ascend to presidency, his success and failures, and an overall evaluation of Obama’s first year in office. The Rise of Barrack Obama Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii to parents Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. His parents later separated and divorced when he was only two years of age. His father left his family to pursue “P.h.D. studies at Harvard and returned to his home country...
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...Syria’s 5 year civil war has had an effect on childhood, this is rather similar in Pakistan as this country has fought 3 wars with its neighbouring country, India, which has created a consequential negative effect on a child’s development. This essay argues that Syria and Pakistan has shaped the idea of childhood in essence of their culture. Both countries’ common characteristics include the high percentage of peril in Syria and Pakistan. This may have been partially caused by the influence of traditional ideas triggering conflict for power or dominance of a certain area’s or religious beliefs which has had a significant impact the concept of what a child should do and how it should act. First the essay will consider the Philippe Ariès who...
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