Health Care Policy and Politics A-Z, 3rd Edition (Health by Julie Rovner

By Julie Rovner

Readers will locate up to date details on long-term future health care spending, abortion, Medicaid and Medicare, medical health insurance and the uninsured, the country children medical insurance application (SCHIP), and masses, even more. New entries replicate vital alterations lately and comprise the Medicare Modernization Act, abstinence schooling, digital future health documents, health and wellbeing discount rates debts, Plan B, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS reduction (PEPFAR), and venture BioShield.

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By Julie Rovner

Readers will locate up to date details on long-term future health care spending, abortion, Medicaid and Medicare, medical health insurance and the uninsured, the country children medical insurance application (SCHIP), and masses, even more. New entries replicate vital alterations lately and comprise the Medicare Modernization Act, abstinence schooling, digital future health documents, health and wellbeing discount rates debts, Plan B, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS reduction (PEPFAR), and venture BioShield.

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Public entities included not only state and local governments but also Amtrak and commuter rail authorities. Title II ensured accessibility to public transportation systems for those with disabilities, requiring “paratransit” systems for those unable to use fixed-route public transit. Title III, the ADA’s “public accommodation” section, applied to a much broader array of private entities than did the  Civil Rights Act. It required access by those with disabilities to the restaurants, lodging, places of entertainment, and gasoline stations covered by the earlier law, and it also mandated their access to museums and sports stadiums, doctors’ offices and hospitals, dry cleaners, pharmacies, grocery stores, and all other retail and service establishments.

The last part of the definition was to prevent discrimination against someone on the basis of a perceived disability, such as someone who had been disfigured by a birth mark or burn scars but who was not hindered from performing major life activities. Among its key provisions was a ban on discrimination against “qualified individuals with a disability” by employers with more than fifteen workers. Employers were prohibited from discriminating in job application procedures; in hiring, advancing, training, compensating, and discharging employees; and in fulfilling other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

The House in  seemed to indicate that it would, when it specifically rejected, by -, an amendment that would have sent a fair housing bill back to committee with instructions to eliminate protections for HIV. In October  the Justice Department weighed in, agreeing that those with HIV as well as AIDS were covered under the Rehabilitation Act. “The SURGEON GENERAL [OF THE UNITED STATES] ad- vises us that the impairment of HIV infection cannot be meaningfully separated from clinical AIDS, and that it is medically inappropriate to think of this disease as composed of discrete conditions,” said a Justice Department official in announcing the change.

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