Deck 15: Domestic Policy

Question 1

Which federal health insurance program covers U.S. residents age 65 and older and is paid for by a tax on wages and salaries?

A) TANF
B) Medicare
C) Medicaid
D) Social Security
E) Affordable Care Act

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following accurately describes Medicaid?

A) Joint state-federal program that provides medical care to the poor
B) Federal health insurance program that covers U.S. residents over the age of 65
C) Government program that takes over the economic function of providing basic health-care coverage to all citizens
D) In-kind subsidy for health care
E) Federal program established to provide assistance to elderly persons and persons with disabilities

Answer 2

A

Question 3

When the federal government addresses issues such as poverty and health care, it is concerned with which of the following types of policy?

A) Social
B) Civil
C) Regulatory
D) Domestic
E) Economic

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In order to combat the high costs of a college education, direct federal loans to college students were considered. This is an example of which of the following?

A) Policy enactment
B) Policy formulation
C) Policy evaluation
D) Problem identification
E) Policy implementation

Question 5

After retiring at the age of 67, Louisa relies on what federal program to provide her with health insurance benefits?

A) Pension Protection Fund
B) Medicare
C) Medicaid
D) Social Security
E) Aged Pension Program

Question 6

What is the shared federal and state health insurance program for low-income persons called?

A) Pension Protection Fund
B) Medicare
C) Medicaid
D) Social Security
E) Aged Pension Program

Question 7

Which of the following best describes domestic policy?

A) Policies that affect major economic variables
B) All policies that affect housing, including construction costs and insurance
C) All the laws, government planning, and government actions that affect individuals' lives in the United States
D) Matters relating to law enforcement within the borders of the United States
E) The activities of the government in its relations with other countries

Question 8

Which of the following would be true of how a single-payer plan works?

A) It is easy to control unnecessary procedures.
B) Administrative costs are high.
C) The government employs most physicians.
D) The government has a monopoly on issuing basic health insurance.
E) Private insurers must approve all medical procedures.

Question 9

Policy formulation involves which of the following?

A) The process of making the government aware that an issue requires action
B) The discussion of proposals between governmental officials and the public
C) The process of deciding on a specific proposal
D) Concern with the implementation of policy by bureaucrats, the courts, police, and individual citizens
E) The process of examining how a policy has worked in practice

Question 10

When individuals with a stake in an issue begin to propose and develop solutions to a problem, what are they engaging in?

A) Policy enactment
B) Policy formulation
C) Policy evaluation
D) Problem identification
E) Policy implementation

Question 11

In the final step of the policymaking process, the policy is reviewed for its effectiveness and efficiency; if changes are needed, the issue is placed back on the policy agenda, and the cycle starts again. What is this step called?

A) Policy enactment
B) Policy formulation
C) Policy evaluation
D) Problem identification
E) Policy implementation

Question 12

Which of the following is the federal health-care program that covers U.S. residents over the age of 65?

A) Affordable Care Act
B) Social Security
C) Medicaid
D) Medicare
E) S-CHIP

Question 13

Receiving input from hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other parts of the medical industry that would be impacted by health-care reform policies would occur in which phase of the policymaking process?

A) Agenda building
B) Policy formulation
C) Policy evaluation
D) Policy adoption
E) Policy implementation

Question 14

The Affordable Health Care Act has not been fully implemented, meaning which stage of the policymaking process cannot yet be achieved?

A) Agenda building
B) Policy formulation
C) Policy evaluation
D) Policy adoption
E) Policy implementation

Question 15

The 2010 law that seeks to ensure health-care insurance for American citizens is formally known as which of the following?

A) Medicaid Reform Act
B) Medicare Reform Act
C) Affordable Care Act
D) Social Security Act
E) Single Payer Act

Question 16

What is the name of the recent major health-care law mandating that individuals have health insurance?

A) Affordable Care Act
B) Medicare
C) Medicaid
D) Dream Act
E) Aged Pension Program

Question 17

Which of the following is responsible for the Medicaid program?

A) Congress
B) The states
C) Federal Reserve Board
D) Nonprofit hospitals
E) The federal government and the states share responsibility.

Question 18

What occurs during the policy formulation stage of the policymaking process?

A) The government is made aware of the issue that requires action.
B) Various proposals for policy are discussed both within government and among the public.
C) A specific proposal for government action is put into place.
D) Bureaucrats, the courts, police, and individual citizens determine the success of a policy.
E) How a policy has worked in practice is examined.

Question 19

The assessment of policy effectiveness and making needed adjustments to improve after a given period of time is part of which step in the policymaking process?

A) Agenda building
B) Policy formulation
C) Policy evaluation
D) Policy adoption
E) Policy implementation

Question 20

When examining total health-care spending, who or what pays the largest portion?

A) Government
B) PACs
C) Individuals
D) Doctors
E) Private insurance companies

Question 21

Which of the following systems is based on industries accounting for carbon emissions through a market system?

A) Cap and trade
B) Collective bargaining
C) Self-regulating
D) Unregulated
E) Tax and spend

Question 22

In an effort to create cleaner-burning gasoline, Congress mandated that 10% of the fuels sold in the years to come should include which of the following as an ingredient?

A) Petroleum
B) Ethanol
C) Coal
D) Detergent
E) Alkaline

Question 23

Which of the following statements best describes the use of nuclear power  as a source of energy?

A) It is rarely used in the United States or Europe.
B) It is inefficient and emits high levels of greenhouse gases.
C) It produces a minimal amount of waste so there is little spent fuel to store.
D) It has been used safely in Europe and the former states of the Soviet Union for decades.
E) It is widely supported in the United States.

Question 24

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 put into place reports that must show the costs and benefits of major federal actions that could significantly affect the environment. What are these reports called?

A) Sustainability assessments
B) Environmental impact statements
C) Agenda building
D) Legislative protocol
E) Green opinions

Question 25

Because of the effects of producing energy and burning fuels, energy policy is deeply connected with which other type of policy?

A) Agricultural
B) Economic
C) Environmental
D) Health care
E) Welfare

Question 26

Which of the following programs would conservatives be most willing to support?

A) TANF
B) AFDC
C) Earned income tax credit
D) Food stamps
E) Conservatives would support all of these equally.

Question 27

Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are alternatives to U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. Which of the following statements describes these alternative sources?

A) The government has set a deadline of 2020 to have at least 50% of the nation's energy coming from alternative sources.
B) Technology has yet to be developed that would allow these sources to produce the quantity of energy needed to replace coal plants or other current energy sources.
C) These alternatives pose no threat to the environment and area wildlife.
D) The majority of Americans favor nuclear power as a more realistic alternative to meeting the country's energy requirements in an efficient manner.
E) They have been discussed in only a hypothetical sense and have yet to be put into actual use.

Question 28

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are examples of what type of program?

A) Targeted
B) Welfare
C) Discretionary
D) Entitlement
E) Constituent

Question 29

Reducing speed limits in the 1970s was a policy in pursuit of which of the following goals?

A) Improving health by lowering stress and encouraging relaxation
B) Achieving energy independence
C) Promoting alternative energy sources
D) Lowering the price of gasoline
E) Promoting new methods of oil extraction like fracking

Question 30

Which of the following is most similar in design to the Affordable Care Act?

A) Social Security
B) Medicare
C) Medicaid
D) Entitlement programs
E) Canada's national health insurance program

Question 31

Under the Welfare Reform Act, who is responsible for the burden of any increased welfare spending?

A) Congress
B) The states
C) The president
D) Voters
E) Private charities

Question 32

Laws that focus on how much energy is needed and used are known as which of the following?

A) Consumption indexes
B) Energy policies
C) Energy requirements
D) Fuel ratios
E) Statutes of consumption

Question 33

Which of the following is one aspect of the Clean Air Act of 1990?

A) It required new automobiles to reduce emissions of nitrogen dioxide.
B) It established an immediate ban on the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as of 2002.
C) It created a loophole to allow older coal-burning power plants to continue operating as they had been for years.
D) It removed pollution controls on factories and other businesses in 96 cities with air quality problems.
E) It mandated a shift from coal-generated power to nuclear energy.

Question 34

The contemporary environmental movement in the United States began after which of the following?

A) The publication of Silent Spring, which described the dangers of pesticides
B) An oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1969
C) A massive extinction of frogs in the Midwest and Northeast
D) The Hudson River in New York actually catching fire in 1969 due to floating chemicals
E) The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency

Question 35

Adjustments to the poverty income threshold are based on which of the following?

A) Recommendations from the Council of Economic Advisers
B) The population levels from the census
C) Recommendations from the president
D) Changes in the consumer price index
E) Changes to the gross domestic product

Question 36

The Carter administration tried to address oil shortages through which of the following policies?

A) Promoting new methods of oil extraction like fracking
B) Reducing speed limits
C) Initiating a program to meet fuel efficiency standards
D) Assisting citizens in buying more energy-efficient appliances
E) Encouraging Americans to replace smaller, more efficient cars with sport utility vehicles (SUVs)

Question 37

The majority of electric power generated in the United States comes from which of the following sources?

A) Wind power
B) Hydroelectric power
C) Coal
D) Nuclear power
E) Natural gas

Question 38

The cartel of major oil producers is called which of the following?

A) OPEC
B) Seven sisters
C) CAFÉ
D) National Petroleum Reserve
E) Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Question 39

The Department of Energy was created under the administration of which of the following presidents?

A) Richard Nixon
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) John Kennedy
D) Jimmy Carter
E) Franklin Roosevelt

Question 40

Which of the following issues can be linked to conservative attitudes and policies toward welfare?

A) Rise in unemployment
B) Increase in homelessness
C) Increase in the number of single-parent households
D) Increases in illegal immigration
E) Increases in housing costs

Question 41

Explain the conservation view of environmental policy. Give an example of a policy that reflects that view, and explain how it does so.

Question 42

Which of the following would be eligible for the protections provided by DACA?

A) A recent high school graduate whose parents brought her or him into the country illegally
B) A child born in the United States to parents who are here illegally
C) Undocumented parents of a child born in the United States
D) A child born in the United States to parents who are here legally but are not U.S. citizens
E) All of these cases meet the criteria of someone DACA was created to protect.

Question 43

Explain how a system of national health insurance coverage works. Discuss how the Affordable Care Act provides insurance coverage. Is the Affordable Care Act a national health insurance plan?

Question 44

Which of the following did the Obama administration propose?

A) English as the national language, to discourage illegal immigration
B) Ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants
C) A new minimum wage that would apply only to illegal immigrants
D) Giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship
E) English as the national language, to discourage illegal immigration, and ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants

Question 45

Explain how a single-payer health insurance system works. Discuss whether the Affordable Care Act fits the model of a single-payer health-care system.

Question 46

Analyze the government's attempts to protect the environment since the 1960s. What policies have been successful?

Question 47

Currently, most immigrants to the United States come from which area?

A) Africa and Asia
B) Europe and the Middle East
C) Latin America and Europe
D) Africa and Latin America
E) Latin America and Asia

Question 48

Describe the chief components of the Affordable Care Act and some of the controversies surrounding it.

Question 49

Outline and describe each step in the policymaking process using an actual policy as an example.

Question 50

Discuss the connection between environmental policy and energy policy.

Question 51

Discuss the problems facing the American health-care system prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the ways in which the ACA does or does not address those problems effectively.

Question 52

Discuss the rising costs of health care and governmental efforts to address them.

Question 53

To curtail the activities of undocumented workers, which state passed a controversial immigration law requiring state and local police to check citizenship papers of those stopped for other offenses?

A) Arizona
B) Michigan
C) California
D) Florida
E) Texas

Question 54

Which of the following is the biggest group of people to receive benefits under TANF?

A) The elderly
B) Children under age 18
C) Single mothers with children
D) Expectant mothers
E) The disabled

Question 55

Explain the idea of climate change and the ways in which this phenomenon has become politicized in the United States.

Question 56

Which of the following is a way that a high rate of immigration benefits the United States?

A) It provides additional taxes that help support programs that benefit older Americans.
B) It increases the number of individuals that are unemployed.
C) It decreases the tax rolls and eliminates the need for state funding.
D) It increases the voting-age population.
E) It reduces the demand on Medicaid.

Question 57

Identify and explain the stages of the policymaking process.

Question 58

Explain the principles underlying the American health-care system and the issues facing the system.

Question 59

Discuss the Clean Air Act and its role in affecting climate change.

Question 60

Explain the preservation view of environmental policy. Give an example of a policy that reflects that view, and explain how it does so.

Question 61

Discuss the variety of ways petroleum is used in the U.S. economy. Explain how vital those uses make oil to the U.S. economy.

Question 62

Explain the concept of energy independence. Discuss examples from American energy policy that encourage it.

Question 63

Review the issues raised by immigration into the United States and the proposed reforms to the immigration system.

Question 64

Discuss the history of off-shore oil drilling in the United States. Explain why public opinion on the matter shifts every so often from support to opposition.

Question 65

Explain what you think an antipoverty program is. Discuss whether you think college scholarships for low-income students are antipoverty programs.

Question 66

Explain the dilemma of energy production and environmental risk. Give examples of this dilemma that involve the need for cleaner air.

Question 67

Discuss the purpose of the Environmental Protection Agency. Explain whether it is more in line with the conservation or preservation view of environmental policy.

Question 68

Discuss the U.S. reliance on coal as its primary means of generating electricity. Explain what problems that causes.

Question 69

Discuss America's efforts to reduce petroleum consumption. Explain why these efforts largely failed.

Question 70

Discuss the concept of sustainability. Give examples of how it affects the U.S. government, business, and the citizens of the country.

Question 71

Discuss the causes and effects of the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s.

Question 72

Discuss how Social Security and Medicare are funded. What impact do high rates of immigration have on their long-term financial solvency?

Question 73

Discuss the national policies designed to fight poverty, and evaluate their effectiveness.

Question 74

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of a nation having a substantial immigrant population.

Question 75

Discuss why homelessness in the United States continues to be a problem.

Question 76

Discuss the Supreme Court ruling in the suit that states filed against the EPA regarding enforcement of the Clean Air Act. Explain whether the Trump administration's actions on this issue reflect that ruling.

Question 77

Discuss the TANF program and what it provides to individuals. Explain whether you think it is an antipoverty program.

Question 78

Identify and discuss the reasons why people of color might outnumber whites by 2060.

Question 79

Discuss efforts taken by Congress and President Trump to deal with the issue of illegal immigration. Compare this to the efforts taken under the Obama administration.