Health administration

How Does OSHA Raise Penalties 82% and We Don’t Notice? The two year Budget Agreement that president Obama signed in November 2 under closed doors, surprisingly included provisions that authorized Occupational Safety & Health Administration raised the penalties by as much as 50% to a new historic high level of 82%. This was the first time the penalty was being raised since Bush senior’s tenure in office, 15 years ago. In spite of the increase, Statistics indicate that OSHA fines are still…

he reaches the age of sixty-five and stopping on the day he dies. The plan was that these payments would begin in the year 1940 and the funds would be obtained from special "modest" tax paid by the employer. The intentions of the Roosevelt Administration was not for Social Security to be the only source of retirement for the elderly. The goal was just to give them a guarantee that they would have something. Later generations would increase the benefit from the initial average of $20 per…

The origin of The Food and Drug Administration can be traced in 1848 at the Patent Office, when Lewis Caleb Beck was examining chemicals in agricultural products. Yet, The Food and Drug Administration began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. Upton Sinclair, Samuel Hopkins, and the Chief Chemist of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture, Harvey Washington Wiley, were able to express the needs for the act in The Jungle. This final push was exactly what was…

Supreme Court to his New Deal legislature (Doc. J). The New Deal had decreased unemployment, but to many it did not do enough. In an editorial in "The Roosevelt Record" the author chastises the administration for not offering more jobs for African Americans. He states that, "To declare that the Roosevelt administration has tried to include the Negro in nearly every phase of its program for the people of the nation is not to ignore the instances where government policies have harmed the race…"…

Department thinks important, or not spent at all. There are three Administrations under the authority of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs: The National Cemetery Administration, the Veterans’ Benefits Administration, and the Veterans’ Health Administration. There are 21 separate offices in the VA. Interestingly, the Department of the Army previously ran most of the cemeteries currently managed by the National Cemetery Administration, but it was transferred to the Department of Veterans’…

Veterans Health Administration is the nation’s leading integrated health care system. It consists of 150 Medical Centers, nearly 1,400 Outpatient Clinics, more than 135 Nursing Homes, 278 Veterans Centers, and 48 Domiciliaries. As the nation’s leading integrated health care system and the nation’s second largest cabinet agency, The Veterans Health Administration provides healthcare services to nearly 9 million veterans, including 6 million who seek care regularly (Veterans Health Administration,…

the federal government regulates many products for the safety of society. These regulations have been founded by extensive research developed and regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. “Food and Drug administration (FDA) authority to oversee food, drug, and cosmetic safety”, (1). The Food and Drug Administration provides specific guidelines of many cosmetic products to protect society against…

The article The New Deal explains that in 1933 the FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) was created and gave $3 billion to states for work relief programs (352) This was a very large amount of money that went to programs other than going to people that really needed the money. Digging In also claims that instead of using toothpaste…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is one of the oldest extensive consumer protection agencies in the U.S. federal government. This independent regulatory agency all started back in 1848 when Lewis Caleb Beck ran chemical analyses of agricultural products. However, the FDA didn 't go by it’s present name until the 1930’s. FDA launched its new regulatory functions with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. This law strictly prohibited interstate commerce in adulterated and…

The New Deal-Half Successful The Great Depression began on 1929 made the whole country in the dark-age. Countless banks failed, companies went bankrupt caused many people lost their jobs, the nation’s supply and productions diminished. Besides, President Hoover still stood his position on market needs self-recovery which led the situation worse. The New Deal, came out under this situation which was seen as the radical action to save the whole country. The new President Roosevelt called…