Policy Basics
Rules, laws, or actions that government takes to address a public issue fall under this term.
What is a policy?
These three branches make up the U.S. federal government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
This is the annual process where Congress decides how to spend federal money.
What is appropriations?
What does ASPR stand for?
What is the Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response?
This provides health coverage to eligible children through both Medicaid and separate CHIP programs
What is Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
Before a bill becomes a federal law, it must be passed by this group.
What is Congress?
This body of government has 435 elected representatives.
What is the House of Representatives?
These committees in the House and Senate are responsible for writing the bills that fund the government.
What are the Appropriations Committees?
The primary disaster relief agency in the United States, coordinating the federal response to disasters that receive a presidential declaration.
What is Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
This federal hotline provides 24/7 free, confidential support for moms experiencing mental health challenges.
What is the Maternal Mental Health Hotline?
This major federal health law, passed in 2010, let states expand Medicaid to cover more people.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The executive branch is headed by this person.
What is the President of the United States?
This is the other major category of spending besides discretionary, covering programs like Medicaid and Social Security.
What is mandatory spending?
This federal law allows the President to declare a state emergency, usually at the request of a governor, which unlocks FEMA disaster assistance and other federal support for that state.
What is the Stafford Act?
During COVID-19, many MCH home visiting programs used this format to continue care while limiting virus exposure.
What is virtual home visiting?
If a state wants to change how they run Medicaid, they might apply for this type of federal permission.
What is a waiver?
A higher authority of law will displace the law of a lower authority of law when the two authorities come into conflict.
What is preemption?
If Congress doesn’t pass a budget by the deadline, they might use one of these to keep the government running temporarily.
What is a continuing resolution?
This is the name of the national strategy required under the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act to guide the U.S. response to public health emergencies.
What is the National Health Security Strategy?
This type of Medicaid waiver allows states to test new ways of delivering and paying for health care services, including for MCH populations.
What is a Section 1115 waiver?
This clause in the Constitution says that federal law takes priority over state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The number of elected U.S. Senators
What is 100?
This is the term for government funding that gets renewed every year through legislation
What is discretionary spending?
In 2020, President Trump used this authority to declare a national emergency concerning the Covid-19 pandemic.
What is the National Emergencies Act?
This emergency preparedness toolkit, developed by ASPR, helps states and local agencies plan for the unique needs of pregnant people, postpartum individuals, and children during disasters.
What is the HHS Maternal-Child Health
Emergency Planning Toolkit?