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environment are free to be collected and used without permission. Furthermore, physicians can sell unidentifiable patient information to others for “scientific purposes.” With this, it is essential to amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to require patient consent in any form of testing for scientific purposes because of the United States’ history of security…

In 2015, ABC News and the Washington Post conducted a poll and reported that 76% of Americans are “worried about a major terrorist attack in the United States” (Bergen). However, there were approximately 500 attacks during the decade of the 1980s compared to only 208 attacks after the Twin Towers catastrophe in 2001. The FBI defines terrorism…

The Solyndra company was a designer, manufacturer, and sold commercial grade solar systems and solar panels designed for business rooftops. In 2009, the Department of Energy provided Solyndra a $535 million dollar loan guarantee supported by President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which provided billions of dollars in loan guarantees to green energy companies (factcheck.org). Supporting clean energy businesses was supposed to create jobs and cut America’s reliance on foreign…

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) was signed into law in 1996 by the Clinton Administration. This monumental legislation was designed to decrease the roles of welfare while promoting self-sufficiency among those in need of assistance (Blank, 1105-1106). The role of welfare dropped in the United States during the first years of the legislation’s implementation resulting in policy makers quickly labeling the new legislation successful-this notion has been…

Brief History of Telemedicine The American Telemedicine Association defines telemedicine as, “the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status.” However, the definition differs according to the source and varies from state to state. While the terms telemedicine and telehealth have definitions that differ somewhat depending on the source, the two terms are used interchangeably. Telemedicine can be used…

Empowering the Homeless Homelessness is a huge problem in the United States. Everyday people pass by homeless teenagers in every state that are living on the streets, in abandoned places, or even by a river. Even people see troubled families every day looking for help. Teenagers are homeless for many different reasons. Some of these reasons may vary from lack of parental support and substance abuse. There are too many young adults and troubled families in the United States that are homeless,…

How Our Government and Society deals with Poverty Poverty is defined as a state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support.1 Conditions such as these are currently affecting an astounding number of Americans across the United States daily. No longer can we as a nation continue to ignore the global impacts that poverty is having on our society. From social conditions, social problems along with social isolation the impacts are being felt and realized in an…

The steady growth of the homeless population in the Washington DC area has been an ongoing issue for many years now with no end in sight. There are many reasons why people become homeless some of the most common reasons are the loss of a love one, mental health issues, loss of a job, drug problems, and gambling debts. The statistics have shown that DC has “65 percent of the regions homeless population and an estimated 1.2 percent of DC’s total population is homeless. The average for the region…

They may have the right to receive care through the Affordable Care Act, but what about after the care? After receiving care, a mental health homeless person is often released back to the streets where they were before. Caring for the mentally ill homeless person brings one of the biggest health disparities in American, primarily due to the type of care the patient needs. Not only are these individuals seeking a roof over their head, there are…

or the post-conviction paroling of a defendant, or an escape” (Cassell, 2012, p. 8). Other actions taken were implementing the nation’s first Address Confidentiality Program (e.g., mailing address and public records) and Battered Women’s Testimony Act to grant fine legitimacy for protecting victims in the early 1990s. To sum up, greater reassurance undertook a sequence of perpetual instruments near the direction of better acknowledging domestic violence beyond what was expected to achieve with…