ObamaCare Pros ObamaCare Cons Tens of millions of uninsured will get access to affordable quality health insurance through the marketplace. In order to get the money to help insure tens of millions there are new taxes‚ mostly on high-earners. The taxes that may affect you directly are the individual mandate and employer mandate. Over half of uninsured Americans can get free or low cost health insurance using their State ’s Health Insurance Marketplace The individual mandate says you have
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Prescription Drug Abuse Among Adolescents Prescription depressants are responsible for fourteen percent of overdoses while street drugs‚ such as marijuana‚ are guilty for thirty-nine percent of drug overdoses (Maxwell 267). Statistics prove the prescription drug epidemic that adolescents and adults face. Teenagers in suburbs and rural areas are more frequently exposed to prescription and illegal opiates due to its marketability and highly addictive properties. As consumers of prescription opiates
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SNAP‚ the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program‚ is a government assistance program to help low-income households pay for food. SNAP used to be called the Food Stamp program. The federal government changed the name of the program on October 1‚ 2008. SNAP is a modern program that uses EBT cards instead of old style paper food stamp coupons. The amount of SNAP food stamps a household gets depends on the household’s size‚ income‚ and expenses. The first food stamp program was established by virtue
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Ethanol: Good or Bad? In the pursuit of a cleaner renewable resource to fossil fuels‚ many scientist have found alternatives. Examples include solar‚ wind‚ biogas‚ geothermal‚ biomass energy and cellulosic ethanol. In the last twenty years‚ efforts have been made to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and ethanol has been an option. Ethanol is nothing new; in fact‚ it was first used in a motor built by Samuel Morey in 1826 (Ethanol History). Since the 1980s‚ the government started having oil companies
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Pros and Cons of Fast Food Business Bryan Lee San Francisco State University The fast food industry has come a long way from its humble beginnings nearly a century ago. The first restaurant considered a fast food restaurant was called White Castle. White Castle was opened in 1921 in Wichita‚ Kansas by Billy Ingram. He opened it so that he could sell his slider-style burgers at a price of 5 cents per patty. White castle is in business today and its belief of selling
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Free speech‚ more than any other of America’s values‚ has been the touchstone of American democracy dating back to the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment‚ created in 1791‚ is so important because “without our basic and essential rights established by that first amendment‚ the others amendments would have little to no meaning and hardly any force.” It shows the creativity and innovativeness of American democracy. The Amendment states‚ “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
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Not only are they buying ridiculous unnecessary items‚ that are not good for the body‚ but the price these items cost is just annoying. WIC another government program that gives money to mothers in need‚ is what I feel EBT needs to follow in the matters of items people can buy. What I like about WIC is that is only lets the mothers buy the necessities
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of people across the United States. ObamaCare prevents insurers from increasing premiums to unaccommodating prices so that people are able to buy health insurance. Another positive impact from this law is that the prices of prescription drugs decreased significantly. This resulted in senior citizens‚ along with others to be able to purchase these originally expensive medications. The last pro of this law is that
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Cannabis‚ also known as marijuana‚ is a psychoactive drug that produces a heightened‚ euphoric and relaxed mood. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S. More the 18 million Americans age twelve and up have reported to using the drug. The war on marijuana started back in 1937 when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. Since then‚ the marijuana black market has sky rocketed and many American’s smoke every day. According to a national household survey an estimated sixty million
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