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100
This term refers to a review of the history and appropriateness of a nomination to an appointment in the government
What is vetting?
100
Nurses compose the largest segment of the healthcare workforce.
True.
100
This law increased accessibility of voting registration by offering voter registration at DMVs and Social Services offices.
What is the Motor Voter Law or National Voter Registration Act? BONUS: What year was this passed? DOUBLE BONUS: Did this law work?
100
This political party feels people must be responsible for their actions and not be dependent on others.
What is liberalism?
100
Political Party Religion Race & Ethnicity Gender Age
What are the patterns of voting behavior? BONUS: Which one of these is the #1 predictor of voting behavior?
200
This is the proportion of all citizens in the US who are 18 yrs and older that vote.
What is voter turnout?
200
The United States ranks the highest among industrialized countries in the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) spent on healthcare.
True. BONUS: What is the current percentage of GDP spent on healthcare? (as of Feb. 2011)
200
This division of the government implements laws and their enforcement.
What is the executive branch?
200
This political party places as many choices as possible into the public realm, encouraging intellectual freedom.
What is democracy? BONUS: What political ideology was democracy born out of?
200
Existential Human Functional
What are philosophical models of advocacy? BONUS: What do all of these models have in common?
300
This occurs when state legislators redraw state lines to make them most advantageous to their political party.
What is gerrymandering?
300
The Department of Education contains the lergest medical education and health professions training program in the United States.
False. BONUS: Which department is? DOUBLE BONUS! Approximately how many people are trained each year? (as of 2009)
300
When the powers associated with the implementation of federeal programs has shifted to state and local levels, this is known as?
What is devolution?
300
This political party prefers stability, structure, and is very predictable.
What is conservatism? BONUS: What great accomplishments in history can be contributed to this party?
300
What are the three main political ideologies?
Liberalism, Democracy, and Conservatism
400
To plea to cause of another.
What is advocacy?
400
This power of the pulpit is the setting of the national agenda by the President of the United States.
True.
400
Describe the authorization-appropriation process of how a bill becomes a law.
Authorization is a bill allowing an agency or program to be established or to continue to exist. Appropriation of a bill prescribes how much money will be spent on the agency or program from the federal budget. This enables an agency or program to spend money. BONUS: How many appropriations bills are currently enacted on an annual basis?
400
This political party resulted from people seeking freedom from confining and parochial values.
What is liberalism?
400
Medicare & Medicaid Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Food & Drug Administration (FDA) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
What are organizations within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)? BONUS: What portion of the federal budget is taken up by the DHHS? DOUBLE BONUS! What department uses the largest portion of the federal budget?
500
A large gruop of people who are bound together, and recognize a similarity among themselves, because of a common culture.
What is a nation? BONUS: What two other terms are often used interchangeably with nation?
500
Appropriations are funding that is required by Congress and cannot be decreased or changed unless the law is changed.
False! Those are entitlements, or nondiscretionary funds! Appropriations must be lobbied for! BONUS: What is one example of each type of funding?
500
Name the historical act of legislation signed by President Barack Obama in 2010, that attempts to provide health care to every citizen in the United States. (Obamacare is not acceptable.)
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? Also known as, H.R. 3590.
500
This political ideology was created for the working class, to help revolutionize oppression. It believes in equality regardless of role and a classless system.
What is socialism? BONUS: Who developed this political ideology?
500
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What are types of voting in Congress? BONUS: Can you define each of the above terms?
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