...class people and those who have been recently terminated from their employment unfortunately cannot buy health insurance due to its expensive nature. Self-employed workers and small business owners also lack the resources to buy this provision. In order to help the 41 million uninsured Americans, Congress passed the Health Care Reform Bill called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Supporting Data and Information The issue of health care reform is not a novelty in the United States. One of the earliest health care reform proposals at the federal level was the 1854 Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane, proposed by Dorothea Dix but was eventually vetoed by president Franklin Pierce. The bill was intended to establish asylums for the insane, blind, deaf, and dumb through land grants given by the government to the individual states. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson created Medicare and Medicaid, insurance programs that provided health insurance to people aged 65 and over and that partially funded a program for those with low income respectively. In 2010, President Barack Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Through the PPACA, the government will be able to provide a system of mandated health insurance over four years and eliminate “some of the worst practices of insurance companies” such as pre-condition screening and policy rescinds when illness or death seems imminent. Other provisions that will be implemented through the...
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...Patrick Fultz My roommate religiously wears a t-shirt depicting the slogan, “So Far, He Sucks.” Of course this garb relates to our current Commander in Chief, Barrack Obama. This is a debatable topic as it has always been for current presidents. However, this paper is directed towards his healthcare policy only. Obama’s health care bill has been a hot topic during his reign as President of the United States and has been met with much praise, as well as much contempt. While I deem myself a neutral party in presidential election and political action, I find myself at a crossroads still when dealing with the healthcare plan. It’s devised to aid Americans in the ever growing need for insurable care and sustained peace of mind that they may or may not be able to visit a physician, and not go bankrupt because of it. The following will educate readers of the new healthcare law enacted recently and provide both pros and cons for Americans, physicians, and insurers alike. The Affordable Healthcare Act was passed by congress and signed into law in March of 2010. The law plans to provide better health security by implementing health insurance reformation. This means insurance companies will be held more accountable in dealing with physician visits, healthcare costs will be lowered, and quality of healthcare will be obtainable by a larger spectrum of Americans (www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform). The main goal of the law is to provide insurance for every American. Those with employer...
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...Views on Same Sex Marriage Professor Jenson ENGL 135 9/30/14 The same argument has been going on since before Proposition 8 was first introduced to the people. Should people of the same-sex be allowed to right to have a marriage recognized by the courts? After being introduced to the people during the electoral year it was finally voted on in November and did not pass due to insufficient votes for the bill. The people who voted against the bill were those who feared the change of what would be a ‘traditional family’ and many Christian’s who refused to change their view on marriage. Not because they do not like homosexuals or think they are less of a human than everyone else but because it violates one of their core beliefs in their religion. This is why the United States people overturned it, because Christianity is predominant in this country with views on sex that have stayed consistent for the past 2,000 years. The problem here is that those who are constantly fighting for the legalization of same-sex marriage do not understand the consequences of their actions that is felt to the religious community. Although there is no solution that would keep both party’s happy the one reasonable solution would be to allow a union between those of the same sex but refrain from calling it a marriage due to the religious beliefs behind what a marriage stands for. Many people like to argue that Christian’s change their views on their religion depending on the issue at hand. That...
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...operating on these waters, violating the Federal Coasting Act of 1793. 2. The Court ruled in favour of Gibbons, arguing that commerce is the trade of commodities, which includes navigation, and, under the power...
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...Quotas: From Discrimination to Democratic Legitimacy EARLY DRAFT – NOT FOR CITATION It is an established rule of U.S. constitutional law that the state cannot impose or pursue race or gender quotas.[1] In the private sector, an employer’s pursuit of numerically fixed race or gender balance is suspect under Title VII.[2] Under both bodies of antidiscrimination law, quotas are regarded as discrimination. If a civil rights initiative can be portrayed as encouraging employers to adopt quotas, its political demise is nearly certain in the United States.[3] Narrow forms of affirmative action have survived, legally and politically, only to the extent that they can be distinguished from quotas. Quotas are so widely regarded as legally, politically, and morally repugnant that they are taboo: The “q-word”[4] is rarely the subject of any serious debate, even by those who favor stronger civil rights protections for women and minorities. The related belief in the illegitimacy of ever pursuing numerically informed demographic balance – especially along lines of race or gender -- is gaining strength in the Supreme Court’s major antidiscrimination cases in the last several years.[5] It is widely accepted – even by civil rights advocates – that pursuing racial or gender balance as a goal, “for its own sake,” would be illegitimate.[6] This principle threatens the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action, which may meet its demise in Fisher v. Texas next Term. Meanwhile...
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...Media History Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 1.1.6 1.1.7 1.1.8 1.1.9 Issues with definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forms of mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Professions involving mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Influence and sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ethical issues and criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See also . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 2 6 6 7 8 10 10 10 10 11 11 12 12 12 12 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 19 20 21 21 21 1.1.10 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.11 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.12 Further reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.13 External links . . . . . . . . ....
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