The Obama Administration’s Record on Supporting the Nursing Workforce Nurses are at the center of the American health system. There are more nurses in our country than any other type of health care provider. And they do it all‚ from delivering preventive care to our children to helping seniors manage chronic disease. There is virtually no setting where health care is delivered where you won’t find a nurse. The health care law – the Affordable Care Act – has given nurses and other health care professionals
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household expenditure‚ health care took 5.1% in 1989‚ 5.3% in 1999 and 5.9% in 2008. According to Pipes (2010)‚ “In 2009‚ the United States spent 17.3% of its gross domestic product on healthcare‚ the highest in the world” (p. 23). In view of the statistics on the deteriorating healthcare system in the United States‚ the Obamacare was enacted in 2010. As Marcovici (2013) presents it‚ “The Obamacare‚ officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ‚ is a bill signed into law to
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a United States federal statute that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. This particular law has come with much controversy. The law (along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) is the principal health care reform legislation of the 111th United States Congress. PPACA reforms certain aspects of the private health insurance industry and public health insurance programs‚ increases insurance
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The federal statute known as the Affordable Care Act‚ has been touted as a positive development towards healthcare in the United States. However‚ there are many downsides to the passing of this act. One of the most glaring disadvantages to this act is the cost associated with it. Also‚ implementation of it is widely contingent upon the successes of the plan in the various states and communities. In other words‚ it will be an experiment. Even among proponents of this legislation‚ there is great uncertainty
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Pros and Cons of Patriot Act The House of Representatives passed the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 on October 24‚ 2001. This is also known as the USA Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was designed to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world and to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools (USA Patriot Act‚ 2001). The events of September 11‚ 2001 led to the near unanimous
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Obama care aint nobody got time fo dat! Why was healthcare an issue? There were many problems with health care like the death spiral for example where people without health insurance eventually spiral into a jobless‚ hungry‚ and poor American and then die because of those three contributing factors. Health Care was also too expensive to a lot of Americans to afford which goes back to the death spiral term. Another problem that health care came with was that it didn’t cover everybody or insurance
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The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by Congress as a response to the terrorist attack of September 11. On October 26‚ 2001 The USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law No. 107-56) was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The USA PATRIOT Act "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” this law enabled law enforcement personnel new abilities to search‚ seize‚ detain‚ or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists as it states in our text
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Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Affordable Care Act) Passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 by Congress‚ followed by it’s signing by President Obama on March 30‚ 2010‚ completes a massive overhaul of the nation’s health insurance and health delivery systems. The Reconciliation Act amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010‚ which President Obama signed on March 23. Combined‚ the two new laws include more than $400 billion in
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The WARN Act Application in a Case Study The purpose of the WARN act and its pros and cons The WARN Act is a law that formulated to cater for mass layoffs of employees. This law will provide a protective shield to various employees and their individual families by notification to the employees before the closure of the plants they are working in within a 60 day period (Ford et al‚ 2000). This law majorly applies to companies with a high number of employees and in this case the company that is about
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scandals and actions reported many inaccurate information. The problems were not at the lower level‚ but the top executive levels were the problems. Due to many of these unethical financial activities‚ the stock financial reporting was inaccurate. The SOX Act was constructed to improve and build on the public trust. The goal is to gain the confidence and restore the integrity of the financial market. The public wanted integrity and honest of the government and the honesty and integrity of corporate
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