Uninsured in the United States

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2016a), approximately 3.5 million people in the United States are infected with Hepatitis C and more specifically, one third of all injection drug users ages 18-30 are currently infected. This outstanding number is in addition to the 1.2 million of the population who are currently infected with HIV (CDC, 2015a). Thusly, establishing its relevance to adults and their health. With injection drug use being at the top of the list for…

public policy problems that exist in the United States today. One public policy problem is the Affordable Care Act, which is also known as Obama Care. It is a U.S healthcare reform law that expands and improves access to healthcare spending through regulation and taxes. The Affordable Care Act provides Americans with access to affordable health insurance, improving and regulating the health insurance industry, and reducing health care spending in the United States. The objective of Affordable…

The United States is a wealthy nation, yet there are millions of Americans who cannot afford adequate healthcare. The current healthcare system uses a tremendous amount of money, yet is grossly inefficient. There is only one practical solution to this escalating problem; The U.S. needs to replace its current private healthcare system with a universal healthcare program due to its benefits in cost, availability to all and increased efficiency. Americans (under 65 years old) fall into one of…

people move to a new country for a better life (e.g., economic, social, political or environmental). The primary destination for immigrants around the world is the United States, in which they chase the American Dream—the ideal that everyone is worthy of success through hard work, dedication and ambition. Throughout history in the United States the faces of immigrants have changed drastically. In the 1970s, the majority of immigrants were of European descent. However, immigrants today are…

research reveals that by March 2004, approximately one half of Mexicans living in the United States were undocumented, accounting for 57% of the 10.3 million undocumented immigrants…

are vital and will be assessed. People & Place The Orange County, FL has a population just over 1.2 million people, where approximately 64% of the population is White, 20% Black and just over 16% of the population living below the poverty line (United States Census Bureau, 2010). The overall infant mortality rate is 7.5, exceeding the rate of the US (6.7) and Florida (6.1) (Florida Charts, 2014). The health disparity between African-Americans (13.5) and Whites (5.6), in the county is not only…

The War Powers Act is a federal law that was made to limit the United States president power to commit the United States of America to an armed conflict without the consent of the US Congress. The President needs to notify Congress and explain why they needs to do that within 48 hours. It was basically made to prevent “future Vietnams”. If the…

Latinos in Idaho as consumers contributed to the state economy 3.34 billion dollars in 2014. Illegal immigrants are comprise are 4.6% of states work force, about approximately 35,000 workers in 2013 according to Pew Hispanic Center (New American in Idaho). A problem that immigrants face is not being able to transport oneself to places. As Sarah E. Hendricks Ph.D. lecturer in Department of sociology at Drake University explains, “The United States is among the top motor-vehicle dependent…

Our journal articles this week focused on the heated debate of health care as a right or a privilege of United States citizens. Although this has always been a topic of discussion, it has held more prevalence in recent years with President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the first successful step in the direction of making health care a right. Despite the majority of citizens believing health care is something all people should have, the way of going about it – universal health care – is highly…

illegal aliens in the United States is rising at an alarming rate. In 2012 the United States Department of Homeland Security estimated that 11.4 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States 1. In a recent interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe news program on July 24 2015 Donald Trump said, “I am now hearing it is 30 million, it could be 34 million, which is a much bigger problem. 2” If the numbers Donald Trump suggests are even close, the impact to the United States is going to…