formation of interest groups goes back to the beginning of the development of the U.S Government. The types of groups that helped form the nation today are economic‚ environmental‚ equality‚ consumer and public interest‚ professional‚ and government interest groups. Two things interest groups do when they interact with the government is shape policies and gather information. Many argue that interest groups do more bad than good for democracy‚ one of the main arguments in favor of interest groups is pluralism
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The Impact of Interest Groups on American Elections I. Introduction Indeed‚ it was James Madison in Federalist 10 that said that factions are groups that unite to serve selfish goals‚ not the national interest. It is necessary to control them through constitutional means‚ one of which is the creation of a large republic‚ which helps disperse factions and to reduce their influence on the national legislature. Madison in his paper is warning the contractures of the constitution that factions are
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“Are PACs and Interest Groups replacing the roles of parties” is an unfair question. PACs and Interest Groups have different roles in the electoral process than the American Political Party does. Posing the question like this steers the person answering the question to make the assumption that PACs‚ Interest Groups and political parties all have the same goal or purpose. And‚ that is genuinely incorrect for the most part. They may both have similar preferences with an election or passage of legislation
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parties‚ interest groups perform critical functions in a democratic system. In the process of attempting to influence politics and policy‚ interest groups 1.organize individuals with similar interests Just as parties organize the unorganized‚ interest groups provide the means for people with common interests to find each other‚ pool their resources‚ and engage in collective action . This function of interest groups points up the important distinction between interests andinterest groups. There are
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MEDICARE FRAUD Bobby Brown Colorado Technical University Medicare Fraud occurs when someone intentionally falsifies information or deceives Medicare (www.medicare.gov). Strike force accused ninety-four people across the U.S. The charges are based on several fraud schemes including Physical Therapy schemes‚ Healthcare schemes‚ HIV infusion schemes‚ and durable medical equipment schemes (Long-Term Living‚ Aug.2010‚ vol.59 issue 8‚ p10-10‚8/9p). These schemes exceeded $225 million in false
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Medicare Medicare was established in 1965 to guarantee elderly Americans access to quality health care regardless of their financial circumstances. Medicare spends more than $200 billion a year and it will increase‚ partly because greater numbers of Americans will become eligible for coverage when the baby boomers begin to turn sixty-five after 2010. According to the article The Political Economy of Medicare by Bruce C. Vladeck‚ to understand the political economy of Medicare it is necessary
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Tashawn Williams The groups website that I chose is www.NRLC.org The issues that my group is concerned with is protecting and defending the most fundamental right to humankind which is the right to life of every innocent human being from the beginning of life to the natural death. They are protecting and fighting for unborn babies and born‚ people with disabilities‚ and people who can’t fend for themselves or who are vulnerable. They are against abortion‚ assisted suicide‚ euthanasia
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Rolunda Baker Medicare Crisis Medicare is another project of Lyndon Baines Johnson Great Society. Spending is obviously out of control. On June 5th the government announced that the Medicare Trust Fund would go broke if something isn’t done with the spending (nationaldebt). In 1965 when LBJ started Health and Medicare‚ the Total Federal Spending for the year was $101 Billion. By the year 2000 we will spend over 4 times than amount on Health and Medicare alone‚ and Medicare will equal the annual
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History of Medicare HCS 530 Professor Michele Fletcher December 4‚ 2006 Background The Social Security system‚ which was created as an economic safety net for older Americans‚ was failing to protect them against the greatest single cause of economic dependency in old age which was the high cost of medical care. The need for a social insurance program to provide older Americans with reliable health care coverage started within the Social Security Administration
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PETA is one of the most popular interest groups there is today. With their aim to benefit animals and their lives‚ they are thoroughly involved with events that have to do with such. In a USNEWS article‚ it states that PETA’s next aim‚ as of December 2014‚ is to have elephant free circuses. It started with more than one hundred people dressed in all gray laying down on the U.S. Capitol lawn in the shape of an elephant. They did so to attempt to protest inhumane treatment of the animal. Their aim
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