What is the consequence of a citizen not purchasing health insurance as mandated by the Affordable Care Act?
A. The federal government automatically enrolls any citizen without health insurance into Medicare.
B. The federal government automatically enrolls any citizen without health insurance into Medicaid.
C. The citizen will pay a penalty.
D. The citizen will have to retroactively pay any costs covered by state or local health services in the form of tax penalties.
Answer: C
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a. provides money for existing government programs. b. establishes a specific program and provides the money for that program. c. establishes a specific program and sets limits on the amount that may be spent on that program. d. extends permission to the Senate for purposes of limiting spending on government programs. e. permits the Congressional Budget Office to create a new program.
What are the conditions under which the federal government becomes active in policy areas where it had not been before?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of these is not true of tort reform in Texas? a. It took power out of the hands of judges and juries. b. It limited the discretion of judges and juries
c. It denied jurisdiction to judges and juries. d. It was heavily supported by doctors. e. It protected consumers.
Statutory county courts were created to
A) relieve county judges in urban Texas counties of their judicial duties to allow them to focus on their county administrative duties as presiding officer of the commissioners court. B) minimize the problems created by the many jurisdictional responsibilities of county courts overlapping those of justice of the peace courts and district courts in Texas. C) to assure a more efficient administration of justice on the county level since county judges are not required to be attorneys while statutory county court judges are. D) to provide for the growing need for the administration of wills and estates through the probate function exclusively given to statutory county courts. E) share felony criminal jurisdiction with district courts of jurisdiction, thus allowing district judges to handle more civil cases.