AP Government Chapter 17 Flashcards
Policymaking for Health Care and the Environment
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| 4773613457 | health maintenance organization | Organization contracted by individuals or insurance companies to provide health care for a yearly fee | 0 | |
| 4773613460 | Medicare | A program added to the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other medical expenses | 1 | |
| 4773613461 | Medicaid | A public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor Americans | 2 | |
| 4773613459 | national health insurance | A compulsory insurance program for all Americans that would have the government finance citizens' medical care | 3 | |
| 4773613462 | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | An agency of the federal government created in 1970 and charged with administering all the government's environmental legislation | 4 | |
| 4773613463 | National Environmental Policy Act | The law passed in 1969 that is the centerpiece of federal environmental policy in the United States | 5 | |
| 4773613464 | environmental impact statements | A report required by the National Environmental Policy Act that specifies the likely environmental impact of a proposed action | 6 | |
| 4773613465 | Clean Air Act of 1970 | The law that charged the Department of Transportation with the responsibility to reduce automobile emissions | 7 | |
| 4773613466 | Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 | A law intended to clean up the nation's rivers and lakes, requiring municipal, industrial, and other polluters to use pollution control technology and secure permits from the EPA for discharging waste products into waters | 8 | |
| 4773613467 | Endangered Species Act of 1973 | This law requires the federal government to protect actively each of the hundreds of species listed as endangered | 9 | |
| 4773613468 | Superfund | A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites that is funded by taxes on chemical products | 10 | |
| 4773616836 | global warming | The increase in the earth's temperatures that, according to most scientists, is occurring as a result of the carbon dioxide that is produced when fossil fuels are burned collecting in the atmosphere and trapping energy from the sun | 11 |