Chapter 17

Question 1

Health Maintenance Organization

Answer 1

Contraacted by individuals or insurance campanies to provide healthcare for a yearly fee. Such network health plans limit the choice of doctors and treatments. More than half of Americans are enrolled in health maintenance organizations or similar programs

Question 2

Uninsured Americans

Answer 2

nealy 16% of the public without healthcare coverageand pay their health care expenses out of pocket. More likely to be hospitalized for conditions that could have been prevented

Question 3

Medicare

Answer 3

Program addeed to the social security system by 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other medical expenses

Question 4

Medicaid

Answer 4

public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor americans and funded by both the state & natioinal govt

Question 5

National Health Insurance

Answer 5

compulsory insurance program for all americans that would have the govt finance citizens’ medical care- proposed by Truman

Question 6

Children’s Health Insurance Program

Answer 6

provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children.

Question 7

Health Security Act (failed clinton plan)

Answer 7

faced problems of cost & access. Benefitting those without health care and extending coverage for millions. Plan would have necessitated either broad-based taxes , or require employers provide health insurance for their employees or pay premium into a public fund. President proposed raising taxes on cigarettes. Most found the plan threatening, dying in congress

Question 8

Patient Protection and Affordable care act

Answer 8

Proposed By Obama- like clinton focused on increasing access to healthcare and containing its costs. Passed and is enacted

Question 9

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Answer 9

largest fed. indep. regulatory agency. Created in 1970 to administer much of U.S. environmental protection policy

Question 10

National Environmental Policy Act

Answer 10

passed in 1969- centerpiece of federal environmental policy, which requires agencies to file environmental impact statements

Question 11

Environmental impact statements

Answer 11

detailing of a proposed policy’s environmental effects, which agencies are required to file with the EPA everytime they propose to undertake a policy that might be disruptive to the environment

Question 12

Clean Air Act of 1970

Answer 12

aimed at combating air pollution, by charging the EPA with protecting and improving the quality of the nation’s air

Question 13

Water Pollution Control Act of 1972

Answer 13

law intended to clean up the nation’s rivers and lakes by enabling regulation of point sources of pollution

Question 14

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Answer 14

EPA has authority to control hazardous waste from the “cradle-to-grave.” This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. RCRA also set forth a framework for the management of non-hazardous solid wastes.

Question 15

Superfund

Answer 15

fund created by congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites. Money for the fund comes from taxing chemical products

Question 16

Global Warming

Answer 16

increase in earth’s temps, that according to most scientists, is occuring as a result of the carbon dioxide that is produced when fossil fuels are burnied collecting in the atmosphere and trapping energy from the sun.

Question 17

Fossil Fuels

Answer 17

formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth’s crust over hundreds of millions of years.

Question 18

Nuclear Energy

Answer 18

most controversial energy source in nuclear power

Question 19

Alternative Energy

Answer 19

Renewable sources- water, wind, sun, geothermal sources, hydrogeb, and biomass

Question 20

Endangered Species Act of 1973

Answer 20

requiring fed govt to protect all species listed as endangered