When President Obama signed the Health Care Reform bill in March 2010‚ he sent a clear message that our country demands social justice for all its citizens. The moral backbone of United States is weakened if it does not provide affordable‚ quality health care to everyone. There are many layers to the Health Care Reform bill that will affect everyone. The health care officials are now working overtime to reassure us that health care reform will not make us worse off‚ that it will
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The Pendleton Civil Service Act According to Kaufman in 1954‚ “...the Civil Service was like a hammer or a saw; it would do nothing at all by itself‚ but would serve any purpose‚ wise or unwise‚ good or bad‚ to which any user put it.” In the aftermath of the American Civil War‚ attempts were made to reduce patronage. As a result in 1883‚ the Civil Service created a Civil Service Commission under the Pendleton Civil Service Act. The Pendleton Civil Service Act disesteemed the spoil system to create
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other high level executives‚ the imposition of very small fines and no prison time for devastating frauds‚ and a lack of independence of external auditors and the board of directors. With this in mind‚ I believe five advantages of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to be: 1. That it holds CEO’s accountable for internal controls so that they cannot claim that they did not know or understand what was happening in their company and place the responsibility for fraud on lower level staff (Section 302 and 404)
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Healthcare reform The issue of mandating healthcare has been a hot topic for many years in the US government. Even though there is no mention of the right to healthcare in the United States Constitution. Some speculate that it is implied under the 14th Amendment‚ which states in the first section that no state shall deprive any citizen of life‚ liberty‚ or property without due process of law. Some argue that the government is violating the 14th Amendment by not making healthcare available to people
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On January 8‚ 2002‚ President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). This law represents his education reform plan and contains changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since it was enacted in 1965. It is asking America’s schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. The act contains the President’s four basic education reform principles: stronger accountability for results‚ especially in reading‚ increased flexibility
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As mentioned in the previous discussion‚ the ACA law remains a highly controversial subject among government officials‚ as well as‚ American citizens. The ACA has induced changes in the effect and availability of affordable health insurance and access to care. According to Whitman‚ the fact that the ACA law ever passed Congress is an accomplishment in itself (n.d.‚ Slide 40). However‚ the ACA has also generated both disadvantages and advantages since its induction‚ which is to be expected with
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Franklin Roosevelt proposed the National Labor Relations Act and in 1935‚ the United States Congress passed the act. This bill is informally known as the Wagner Act due to the senator who introduced the act. Initially‚ the intention of the National Labor Relations Act was to establish the legal right of workers and employers to collectively bargain‚ to organize unions‚ and to also join unions. The National Labor Relations Act consists of several principles that protect the freedoms and rights
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is an enormous part of financial reform legislation passed by the Obama presidential term in 2010 as a response to the financial crisis of 2008. The act has many provisions and implied out over thousands of pages. It was intended to decrease various risks in the U.S. The act established a number of new government agencies to supervise over various components of the financial system. There are so many provisions‚ such as financial stability
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The Affordable Care Act was signed into a law on March 23‚ 2010‚ by President Barack Obama. The United States‚ after long years of demanding Ever since the enactment of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965‚ this law is considered the most important administrative system of the United States health care system. This law was planned to help avoid terrible health care costs to the people who did not provide health insurance for themselves. The terrible health care costs can destroy the credit scores of the
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Doubts about the No Child Left Behind Act ENG122: English Composition II Instructor: Randall Norris July 21‚ 2014 The No Child Left Behind Act lacks effectiveness for reasons such as achievement is measured only by students’ performance on standardized tests‚ students fail to receive a well-rounded curriculum (teacher qualifications)‚ and lastly all students are held to the same achievement standard regardless of their ability level‚ socioeconomic status or native language
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