Module 10

Question 1

What is a policy?

Answer 1

A policy is a prescribed course of action, a way of accomplishing a goal, or a set of operational principles.

Question 2

What is public policy?

Answer 2

Public policy is a government plan of action to solve a problem that people share collectively or that they cannot solve on their own.

Question 3

Who creates public policy?

Answer 3

• Congress
• The president
• Gov. bureaucracies (federal, state, and local)
• Courts

Question 4

Complications of policy making:

Answer 4

• People have different narratives about what constitutes a problem in the first place.
• Solutions cost money
• Public problems can be difficult to solve because their solutions often generate new problems
• Public problems are complex.

Question 5

redistributive policies:

Answer 5

policies that shift resources from more affluent segments of society to those who are less affluent and less likely to participate politically

Question 6

distributive policies:

Answer 6

policies funded by the whole taxpayer base that address the needs of particular groups

Question 7

regulatory policies:

Answer 7

policies designed to restrict or change the behavior of certain groups or individuals

Question 8

what are subsidies?

Answer 8

financial incentives given by the government to individuals, corporations, or other government jurisdictions or institutions usually to encourage certain activities or behaviors.

Question 9

what is an entitlement program?

Answer 9

A federal program that guarantees benefits to qualified recipients.

Question 10

Difference between Medicare and Medicade?

Answer 10

Medicare is for older individuals, Medicade is for poor people and children

Question 11

What did the affordable care act (or Obamacare) do?

Answer 11

• The requirement that employers with fifty or more employees provide health care coverage
• A universal mandate that people without employer-sponsored coverage obtain insurance for themselves
• A regulation of private insurance companies have to offer, through state exchanges, plans that won’t deny coverage because of preexisting conditions, won’t kick people off their coverage when they become sick, and can’t cap benefits
• An expansion of Medicaid to states to subsidize the insurance premiums of those who could not afford them
  The provision of tax subsidies to small corporations
• children can stay on their parents’ insurance until they’re 26 years old