GOVT 2306 Ch. 12 – Flashcards
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In Texas, Medicaid is administered through the
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
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In 1996, Congress created the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which
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developed a federal block grant program for welfare; it replaced the AFDC program.
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What two laws are often referred to collectively as Obamacare?
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the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Reconciliation Act
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According to the authors of the textbook, what is the single most important issue confronting policy makers with Medicaid in Texas?
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cost
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In 2005, the Texas Supreme Court declared that the school system was being financed by an unconstitutional state property tax. What did the legislature do to remedy the situation?
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They cut property taxes by a third and replaced lost revenues with money raised statewide by an expanded business tax and a new $1-per-pack tax on cigarettes.
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The result of the education reforms instituted in the 1980s and 1990s has been
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mixed results; while dropout rates and scores on the state's standardized states have improved, measures such as spending on education, high school graduation rates, and average SAT scores remain below the national average.
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Today, what is Texas's primary water planning and financing agency?
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the Texas Water Development Board
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Over the last two decades, poverty rates in Texas have
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remained basically the same, despite the growth of the Texas economy.
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A related program to Medicaid is the _____ program, which provides coverage for children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid.
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Children's Health Insurance
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The education reforms recommended by the State Committee on Public Education (SCOPE), which was chaired by Ross Perot and passed by the legislature in the mid-1980s, included which of the following?
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the "no pass, no play" rule, which keeps students who fail a course from participating in extracurricular activities, such as playing sports
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In 2012, a Gallup survey found that for the fourth consecutive year Texas led the nation in the percentage of its population that lacked health care insurance. What percentage of Texans did not have health insurance?
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27.6 percent
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The name change of the Department of Public Welfare to the Department of Human Resources to the Department of Human Services to the Health and Human Services Commission reflects the
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desire to think of the agency less as a welfare agency and more as a service agency to the poor.
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Conservation is a major goal for Texas water policy, in part because groundwater supplies available to Texas are projected to decline by _____ percent between 2010 and 2060.
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thirty
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Managed care programs in Texas Medicaid have become an essential part of
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cost containment measures.
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Unlike San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez, Edgewood ISD v. Kirby considered the equity of funding public schools by the existing property tax system in terms of the
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Texas state constitution.
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In the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, schools districts were ordered to desegregate their school systems "with all deliberate speed." In Texas,
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school districts eventually complied by the 1960s, but de facto segregation remained a problem.
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Since the 1996 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was passed, the number of people on welfare has declined and the number of people moving from welfare to employment has increased. New questions, however, are arising today because
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these improvements were made under a booming economy in the 1990s and the labor market has since tightened.
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Public education in Texas was mostly a local affair until 1949 when the state legislature passed the
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Gilmer-Aikin Laws.
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Where does the majority of water used in Texas come from?
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aquifers
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What was the main consequence of the Water Rights Adjudication Act?
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The ability of the state to control and manage surface water was greatly increased.
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In 2008, about what percentage of Texans was living in poverty?
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fifteen percent
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About how much is Texas's water consumption projected to increase by over the next 50 years?
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eighty percent
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In 2009, a majority of Medicaid recipients were
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nondisabled children.
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The case of Edgewood ISD v. Kirby compelled the legislature to
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equalize school funding between rich and poor school districts.
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What decision was made by the Texas Supreme Court in the case, The Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Burrell Day and Joel McDaniel?
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Texas regulatory authorities had the power to regulate the use of water drawn from an aquifer in the public interest, but it may have to pay individuals with a property stake in that water any damages that are incurred by the regulation.
