The Equality Act 2010 was created to bring together 116 separate pieces of legislation into one single Act. This makes it easier to manage. This Act provides a legal framework (guidelines) to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality or opportunity for all. It is unlawful to not follow these guidelines. It protects everybody. The Equality Act 2010 promotes anti-discriminatory practice by making sure all people are treated equal and are given the rights and opportunities they deserve
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The Animal Welfare Act is long overdue for an update and should be amended further to improve the quality of life for all commercially bred animals. Until recently‚ many States have been in the dark over their own local regulations of puppy mills or factory farms. Now more States are realizing the damaging effects that poorly regulated puppy mills can cause. The Animal Welfare Act is a Federal law which covers all of the basic standards of living such as food‚ water‚ and shelter for commercially
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Health Care Reforms The affordable care act came in to effect on March 2010. It is a four years plan that will affect the delivery of care to the 250 million Americans. (Swanton‚ 2012). The Affordable Care Act includes numerous provisions to support millions of Americans to keep the Health care costs low‚ promote preventive care such as colonoscopies and mammogram‚ and other services readily available to promote prevention of the disease and hold insurance companies accountable for the safe
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having plans to provide universal health coverage. Worrying portion of population still lacked on basic healthcare coverage which it’s become economically alarming. This proposal is merely based on allowing the population to have accessible and affordable health assistance when needed. Many opposed to this proposal for the simple fact of becoming more responsible to provide this benefit to more people than planned. “…Most everyone in healthcare knows the infamous quality/cost equation: the lower
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1. I see many pros and cons to universal health care but with people dying because they lack health insurance‚ I cannot in good conscience say that the good wouldn’t outweigh the bad. Our deficit would increase by a large percentage but maybe it doesn’t have to. Pharmaceutical companies charge outrageous amounts because they can. What if they couldn’t? If the government was footing the bill I would imagine that they would expect fair prices. According to Healthcare ProCon in 2008 the UK approved
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14 November 2013 ObamaCare: Reforming Our Healthcare System In the 2008 election‚ Presidential candidate Barack Obama focused on healthcare reform. Barack Obama stated that the high costs of health insurance were‚ “a threat to our economy” (“History of the Passage”). He made it publicly known that health insurance should be every American ’s right (“History of the Passage”). Obama began his journey to establish a working healthcare plan‚ and succeeded. Now that this plan is on the verge of
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The Animal Welfare Act was first first passed in 1876 in Britain and titled “the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876”. It was created to approve all animals used in research. Since there were initiatives to protect laboratory animals it took many years until there was a national law to protect laboratory animals in the U.S. There were multiple numbers of states that passes anti-cruelty laws between 1828 and 1898 in the U.S. and fourteen states exempted animal experiments. There were also a number of bills
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Assignment: The Welfare Reform Act The Welfare Reform Act is better known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996‚ this was created by former President Clinton. Clinton vowed to stop welfare‚ he wanted it to be someone’s right not just a privilege to receive aid. Clinton wanted to help the needy people who actually needed help‚ but many people were angry with the changes that it made. Clinton did not think that people’s reactions would be so negative‚ but they
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Security Act of 1935‚ enacted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ has become a third rail in today’s American society. By third rail‚ various scholars explain that if a politician these days were to try to alter or change the structure of the law dramatically‚ then they could essentially destroy their political career. One must understand how the United States gained this transformative law through our country’s history‚ both the official and non official actors involved in enacting the act‚ different
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Takedown of Glass Steagall Act” Submitted By : Amanjot Singh Roll No : A006 Passed during the time of Great Depression‚ The Glass- Steagall Act of 1933 (officially known as The Banking Act) bared commercial banks from trading risky securities with their client’s deposits such that it will detach commercial banking from investment banking. Also‚ this Act created the Federal Deposit
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