65 Search Results for Federal Deficit and Entitlement Programs
President Clinton's And Obama's Health Care Policies:
Since the 1960's, universal health care has continued to be a major aspect of social reform to an extent that the right to health care for all Americans has been a central issue in political deba Continue Reading...
U.S. Business Environment in the Next Decade and Implications for Business and Households.
Over the last decade, the U.S. economy has been undergoing tremendous challenges. This is because the lingering recession and slow recovery have left the une Continue Reading...
Economic Policy and the National Debt
Ironically, when governments overspend they typically find ways to refund or restructure debt -- when individuals or corporations within those countries do the same, the consequences are quite different. Money m Continue Reading...
Fiscal Policy
The three major categories of revenue for the federal government are individual income taxes, corporate income taxes and social insurance taxes. The most important of these are the individual income taxes, which represent 55.1% of the Continue Reading...
Aging
The social issue in which I am interested is how the aging of society will affect the way that we view the elderly. The idea here is that population growth via the baby boom created a generation that had the economic means -- by virtue of the Continue Reading...
Sunrise Foster Senior Community
The Older American Act (OAA) was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 14, 1965. The purpose of the law was to provide for the needs of an increasing number of older persons in the United States. The s Continue Reading...
It is also argued that the insurance mandate is not constitutional since the government does not have the right to tell the United States citizens what products to purchase, even when these products are beneficial for them, and even less when the s Continue Reading...
Employee Benefits and Services
Employers still elect to offer their employees healthcare benefits despite the ever increasing costs. This they do as a result of; pressure from the labor market, the need to increase or enhance employee performance, e Continue Reading...
Aid to Dependent Corporations
The government of United States is incurring heavy revenue loss on account of the corporate sector subsidies and other special rebates. The friendly policies of the government aimed at promoting a positive business clim Continue Reading...
Still, Mason indicates that the opposite is often true in public education settings, where educators, parents and institutions collectively overlook the implications of research and demands imposed by law. Indeed, "despite the IDEA requirements, res Continue Reading...
Macroeconomics
Factors that lead to Growth
There are several factors that lead to economic growth. They are physical capital, human capital, natural capital and technological change. Physical capital refers to the infrastructure that a nation has, Continue Reading...
Introduction
A lot gets lost in the current debates over immigration in the United States. When we regurgitate what we hear on the news or on Facebook, we fail to think deeply or critically about the issues. This nation is a settler nation; of that Continue Reading...
EEOC Review
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is far and away the most prolific and omni-present agency that exists in the United States, at least at the federal level, that regulates employers and protects employees from discrimina Continue Reading...
Current status in implementing the affordable care act with regard to veterans' mental health problems
The Affordable Care Act's enactment gave rise to major concerns with regard to greater healthcare expenditure and reduced benefits for the Continue Reading...
It was also interesting to see some of the reforms that are being discussed to help lower costs and that if something is not done now, Americans under the age of 54 probably won't have Medicare when they are ready to retire.
As with many government Continue Reading...
Leisure May Be the Death of Europe
Economics
Time to Kill
In his article, Time to Kill - Europe and the Politics of Leisure, Steven Muller examines the efforts of Europe to reconstitute itself in the aftermath of the Cold War. By analyzing such fa Continue Reading...
Hisory of Palliatve Care
Palliative Care
Palliative Care Methods
Palliative care entails assisting patients get through pain caused by different diseases. The patient may be ailing from any diseases, be it curable or untreatable. Even patient who Continue Reading...
British Age of Austerity and the Debt Crisis
Currently, the United Kingdom is going through a period of intense economic turmoil where the fundamental questions of monetary and fiscal policy are major political issues. As Europe finds it's way thro Continue Reading...
Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature
Chapter Introduction
This chapter provides the background and an overview of the debate concerning national health insurance and the issues surrounding the provision of universal health care in the United S Continue Reading...
With corporate profits at an all- time high, the "annual $92 billion in direct and indirect subsidies to businesses and private-sector corporate entities" (Slivinski, S. May 14, 2007) would provide the funding necessary to implement the proposal.
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"Twenty-one State Attorneys General have filed suits to protect their citizens from being forced, in violation of the Constitution, to purchase government-approved health insurance" (Obamacare: Impact on States 4).
Doctors are drastically being cut Continue Reading...
1903). The management goal for HCH is to improve the effectiveness of health care delivery to the homeless and indigent of Milwaukee in close partnership with the community. In this regard, the management of the HCH community health center requires Continue Reading...
Reaganomics
Richard Nixon focused on the economic matters in his initial six months of his tenure with the advice of former president Richard Nixon. The concept of Reaganomics was associated with the supply-oriented economic theorem which formed the Continue Reading...
Roosevelt remained a fiscal conservative at heart who saw deficits as a necessary evil and had faith in the capitalist system, although during the second phase of his New Deal, he did grow more emboldened to curtail the abuses of the 'giants' of in Continue Reading...
Policy Making Process
Welfare Reform Policy Analysis
Success of welfare reform is ambiguous. Media and well-known public officials claim to have had achieved welfare reforms. However, after 4 years of new policy regime, majority also accepts that Continue Reading...