What is HIPAA? HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996. The original goal was to protect people with pre-existing illnesses from losing health insurance when they changed jobs, as well as to standardize electronic filing and availability of information in order to cut down on paperwork. The […]
Read MoreShattered Bonds is a thoughtful essay in three parts regarding the gap between what we as a society think we mean by child “protection” and “welfare,” and what actually happens as a result of the Child Protective System and the Welfare System. While you might not agree with all of her conclusions, she cites a […]
Read MoreKotulski highlights that there are 1,049 federal rights awarded to straight people when they marry that are denied to gay and lesbian couples. Even if an individual State were to decide to support civil unions, and award gay and lesbian couples the 300 some odd rights many States award to straight married couples, there are […]
Read MorePsychPage started over a decade ago as a place to organize and house my course notes and materials for students. Over the years it became a hobby for me, and sprawled into multiple sections and subsections for sharing different interests I’ve developed and things I’ve learned. I’ve started revisions to it three times in the […]
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