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Unit 6 Health Care

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Why is health care so expensive in the US?
Describe the inequalities in health care in the US. Also explain the inequalities in access to health care.
What is Medicare? Describe the system and its parts. old people (65+ with Social Security) social insurance trust; workers pay into their own retirement fund on payroll tax; covers of hospitalization and nursing care with optional extension of coverage for physician services, X-rays etc.
What is Medicaid? health care for needy, low-income families, pregnant women, and children; covers hospitalization, physician services, drugs, and long-term nursing care
What is an environmental impact statement? What is its purpose? A report required by federal law that assesses the possible effect of a project on the environment if the project is subsidized in whole or part by federal funds- a document required before any federal agency undertakes an activity that "significantly" af
What is Superfund? A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites. Money for the fund comes from taxing chemical products.It gave the government power to sue any person or company that dumped waste.
What is the 1970 Clean Air Act? Required EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants; forced states to follow and make sure the laws for followed in relation to the EPA. States allowed to decide officials for enforcement.
What is the comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act? The 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), or Superfund, which taxed chemical and petroleum industries and put the proceeds into a trust fund that payed for cleaning up abandoned hazardous water sites and gave
What provides most of or nation's energy?
What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? An emergency fuel storage of oil maintained by the United States Department of Energy. It is the largest emergency supply in the world with the capacity to hold up to 727 million barrels
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