Caring for Healthcare
A health care right guaranteed by a 1996 federal law in which employees can take their guaranteed insurance coverage with them
Portability
According to the article, "All Votes Are Not Created Equal: Campaign Contributions and Critical Votes," if a legislator is going to be influenced by lobbyists, then it will occur...
NOT when they are trying to get them to vote yes but to vote NO
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, which significantly altered health care policy in the United States and also deeply divided the nation over its expansion of the federal role in health care
Affordable Care Act (I will accept Obamacare)
involves noncriminal legal conflicts between people, corporations, or even governments or governmental units
Civil Law
A tax on gasoline or on all fossil fuels, often proposed as a revenue-neutral tax
Carbon Tax
A privilege of patients to see medical specialists or have a specific medical treatment or to sue their health care provider in order to gain those services or be compensated for their loss.
Patient's Rights
According to the article "Funding Mechanisms and Policy Instruments: How Business Campaign Contributions Influence Congressional Votes," If legislators want to gain campaign contributions from lobbyists then they will focus their votes to benefit said lobbyists in...
less visible areas.
Required for federal air quality standards across the entire United States
Clean Air Act
Damage, injury, or a wrongful act to person or property—whether done willfully or negligently—for which a civil suit can be brought
Tort Law
An approach to environmental or resource decision-making in which industry and other stakeholders work cooperatively with government officials
Collaborative Decision-Making
A national health insurance program for senior citizens. Covers basic medical care for those age sixty-five and older and for others with permanent disabilities, diabetes, or end-stage renal disease
Medicare
According to the article "Americans’ Views of Government Aid to Poor, role in health care and social security," if a person identifies as Republican, then they will be...
less likely to support social security than Democrats
A form of impact assessment in which government agencies must provide details on the environmental consequences of major actions, such as highway construction, and make them public prior to a final decision on the project
Environmental Impact Statement
involve the government prosecuting a person for violating a criminal statute
Criminal Law
a philosophy of governance based on the belief that the natural environment should be protected for future generations.
Environmental Stewardship
An alternative to a health maintenance organization in which enrollees have a financial incentive to use physicians on an approved list but may opt to see other health professionals
Preferred Provider Organization
According to the article "The Gerrymanderers Are Coming!", If a state is undergoing a redistricting process, then the redrawn district lines have...
minimal effects on the ability of partisans to obtain re-election in “safe districts”.
refers to the requirements regulators are asked to submit all proposed major rules and regulations – specifically dealing with 100 million dollars a year – to the House and Senate.
Congressional Review Act
the requirement that a person who brings a suit be a proper party to request adjudication of the particular issue involved.
Standing to Sue
a comprehensive approach to natural resource management that emphasizes the integrated treatment of entire ecosystems and their functions.
Ecosystem Based Management
What is the beginning of healthcare?
Controlling for potential crises.
According to the article, "The Effects of Term Limits on State Legislatures: A New Survey of the 50 States," if a state has term limits, then legislators of those states are...
less attentive to constituent service, empower the governorship, the bureaucracy, and have made the average candidate MORE progressive ambitious
refers to the ways, or tactics, to pursue a strategy that rewards businesses that distribute money to a legislator without the legislator being punished in the next election
Tactical rationality
Exist any time lawsuit recoveries are calculated using the dollar amount a patient was billed for a medical service instead of the amount the patient, their insurer, Medicare, Medicaid, or workers’ compensation actually paid for treatment
Phantom Damages
An ethical principle that emphasizes fairness or equity among generations.
Intergenerational Equity