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health maintenance organization
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Organisation contacted by individuals or insurance companies to prove health care for a yearly fee
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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
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Medicare
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A program at the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other medical expenses
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Health care insurance for the elderly, is part of the Social Security system and covers 43 million people, or about 14 percent of the population
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Medicaid
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A public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor Americans and funded by both the states and the national government
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Service about 43 million people
Its current cost to the federal government is about $300 billion |
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National health insurance
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A compulsory Insurance program for all Americans that would have the government finance citizens as medical care.
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First proposed by President Harry S Truman
The idea was strongly opposed by the American Medical Association, the largest physicians interest group, |
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Environmental Protection Agency
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created in 1972 administer much of US Environmental Protection Policy
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the largest federal independent regulatory agency,
It is charged with administering policy dealing with land use, air and water quality, and wilderness and wildlife preservation |
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National Environmental Policy Act
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The centerpiece of federal environmental policy, which requires agencies to file an environmental impact statement
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Passed in1969
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Environmental impact statement
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the detailing of a proposed policies environmental effects, which agencies are required to file with the EPA everytime I propose to undertake a policy that might be disruptive to the environment
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the EIS details possible environmental effects of the proposed policy
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Clean Air Act of 1970
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The law aimed at combating air pollution, by charging the EPA with protecting and improving the quality of the nation's air
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To minimize peoples exposure to airborne contaminants
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Water Pollution Control Act of 1972
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Hello intended to clean of the nation's rivers and lakes
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by enabling regulation of point sources of pollution
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
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a law requiring the federal government to protect all species listed as endangered
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Created an endangered species protection program in the US Fish and Wildlife Services
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Superfund
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A fund created by congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites
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Money is for the Sun comes from taxing chemical products
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Global warming
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The increase in the Earth's temperatures that, according to most scientists, is occurring as a result of the carbon dioxide that is produced when fossil fuels are burned collecting in the atmosphere and trapping energy from the Sun
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One of the most intractable and potentially the most serious environmental issue
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