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| 4758224239 | Health Maintenance Organization | Organization contracted by individuals or insurance companies to provide health care for a yearly fee. Such network health plans limit the choice of doctors and treatments. About 60 percent of Americans are enrolled in them or similar programs. | 0 | |
| 4758224240 | Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act | appropriate medical screening occurs and if emergency condition exists, the hospital can't discharge or transfer the patient until he/she stabilizes | 1 | |
| 4758229328 | Medicare | A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older | 2 | |
| 4758229329 | American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) | Nationwide organization for people over 50 that offers discount drug purchases, health & auto insurance, publications, & other activities | 3 | |
| 4758229834 | Medicaid | A federal system of health insurance for those requiring financial assistance. | 4 | |
| 4758230343 | Children's Health Insurance Program | State and Federal government partnership that helps to cover children and pregnant women in families whose income are too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage. | 5 | |
| 4758230845 | National Health Insurance | A plan to provide universal health insurance under which the government provides basic health insurance to all citizens. In most such plans, the program is funded by taxes on wages or salaries. | 6 | |
| 4758255586 | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | This is the health care reform law. Focuses on reform of the private health insurance market; providing better coverage for those with pre-existing conditions; improving prescription drug coverage in Medicare. | 7 | |
| 4758256125 | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | an independent federal agency established in 1970 to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment | 8 | |
| 4758256126 | National Environmental Policy Act | A law passed in 1969 requiring agencies to issue an environmental impact statement before undertaking any major action affecting the environment. | 9 | |
| 4758256810 | Environmental Impact Statement | Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment. | 10 | |
| 4758257584 | Clean Air Act of 1970 | Required EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants; forced states to follow and make sure the laws for followed in relation to the EPA. States allowed to decide officials for enforcement. | 11 | |
| 4758258798 | Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 | Provided funds to build sewage treatment facilities and required industries to remove or treat pollution in water discharged to a lake or stream. | 12 | |
| 4758259654 | Endangered Species Act of 1973 | Identifies threatened and endangered species in the U.S., and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations | 13 | |
| 4758260555 | Superfund | A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites. Money for the fund comes from taxing chemical products. | 14 | |
| 4758260949 | Global Warming | An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) | 15 | |
| 4758260950 | Greenhouse Effect | Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases | 16 | |
| 4758263610 | Cap-and-trade system | an approach to pollution control in which the government sets a limit on the amount of emissions allowed (the cap) and then permits companies to buy and sell emissions allowances (the trade) | 17 | |
| 4758263611 | Keystone Pipeline | For transporting oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico; length increasing because easily accessible oil has been tapped. It is not clean: oil spills happen. It goes across residential areas (flooding suburbs with oil) and wildlife areas. This oil is largely for export and not domestic use. | 18 | |
| 4758265124 | Hydraulic Fracturing | the process of creating fissures, or fractures, in undergound formations by pumping water, sand, and other additives under high pressure into the formations to allow natural gas and oil to flow. this process has allowed the oil and gas industry to open many new oil and gas fields in shale rock, expanding supplies of those fuels. | 19 | |
| 4758265125 | Strategic Petroleum Reserve | An emergency supply of up to one billion barrels of oil that is stored in underground salt caverns along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, as mandated by the U.S. Energy Policy and Conservation Act. | 20 |
