A Guttmacher Institute review found that 25 states have banned abortion coverage on exchanges (Hasstedt 1). Each time legislatures debated these abortion rules, politicians’ and the public’s eyes turned to the ACA, opening multiple policy windows in which opponents could fight the ACA or try to derail its implementation. In addition, after a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed states to opt out of Medicaid coverage expansion…
Local government, State/territory government and the commonwealth government all control each division of the health care system with the commonwealth government being responsible for the funding for health services. This includes, hospitals, medical and pharmaceutical benefits, subsidisation and research. Otherwise, funding for such services come…
While at the surface, these claims seem awesome, they also have down sides. Most internet service providers offer payment tiers to their subscribers. Payment tiers are multiple levels of service a costumer can purchase, so for example someone who just wants to web browse are able to pay for a lower bandwidth (speed of the service), while someone who want to play online videogames will have the option to pay more for a higher…
scale to that of the Rome of Late Antiquity. Several generations of authors and historians have had their own opinions on the multiple causes of the decline, or, some argue that it was not a fall, but a period of transformation. The differences in opinions can presumably be traced back to the historical context that each of the historians has lived in. In other words, as time…
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the impact of the effects of climate change will intensify exponentially over time. [1] There is a greater risk for more variations of weather conditions in the next decades, thus proper actions to lessen the effects of these changes to the society should be planned and implemented. Philippines, considered as an agricultural country…
I have organized many committees, assemblies, and group projects. I have held many leadership roles in ASB as a class officer, student body ad manager this past year and was recently elected as the ASB President. I continually involve myself in multiple community projects; I volunteer each year at our annual community fall fair by helping a local business prepare and serve food, I spend three hours each week at our local hospital volunteering, and I also help coordinate our annual Mr. Naches…
interactions and useful spaces that encourage these interactions. Idealising a futuristic city is not out of the ordinary based off urban planning research done throughout the years. Planners are trying to invest time and resources into creating functional spaces for citizens, to minimize evident division and segregation within the city and create a fluid organic functional space that proves to be useful in many situations. Jane Jacobs, an urban planning critic, stresses on the importance of a…
Though marijuana was highly respected in ancient cultures, it eventually gained a bad reputation, mostly due to misleading and exaggerated information in the media and lack of funding for research. In fact, laws banning marijuana in 1937 wrongly accused marijuana of being among the most dangerous and addictive drugs (Burnett). Even after it was disproved and deemed relatively safe, government representatives kept marijuana banned, leading the public to believe that marijuana is worse than it…
Executive Summary Auburn University Montgomery, established in 1967 at the request of the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce on behalf of local and state leaders, is an institution that offers more than 90 areas of study, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Some unique programs include Geographic Information Systems, Hospitality and Tourism, Homeland Security, and Cyber systems and Information Security. Organized into five academic units the institution includes: the College of…
The urban environment as we have come to know it today, has been through multiple changes and major restructuring during the human history. What is now known as an advances 21st century industrialized city, has had several reforms. Some of these reforms were rapid, some unexpected and many are still taking place today. All these advancements are shaped by people, new ideas, new goals and new inventions. These advancements are fuelled by transportation brought to us with the automobile, new…