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2. Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 - Wikipedia

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   Court of Appeals of Maryland, 566 U.S. 30 (2012) The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ( FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected, unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. [1] The FMLA was a major part of President Bill Clinton 's first-term domestic agenda, and he ...

3. Parental leave in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Parental leave in the United States. Parental leave (also known as family leave) is regulated in the United States by US labor law and state law. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) requires 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually for parents of newborn or newly adopted children if they work for a company with 50 or more employees.

4. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - Wikipedia

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   The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA or the Kennedy – Kassebaum Act [1] [2]) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1996. [3] It aimed to alter the transfer of healthcare information, stipulated the guidelines ...

5. Maternity Leave in the United States: Facts You Need to Know

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   Maternity leave facts in the United States. 40 percent of women don’t qualify for the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) which grants 12 weeks of protected job leave, unpaid, at the federal level ...

6. Crohn’s and Work: Your Rights, The ADA, Statistics & More

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   Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It causes the lining of your digestive tract to become inflamed. It can lead to symptoms such as: abdominal pain. diarrhea. weight ...

7. Parental Leave and Your Finances: How to Budget and Prepare

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   Strictly focusing on the parental aspect of state FMLA laws, these states offer the most coverage, at 12 weeks of paid parental leave: Both Oregon and Colorado will also begin offering 12 weeks of ...

8. Managed care - Wikipedia

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   The term managed care or managed healthcare is used in the United States to describe a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing American health insurance while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques"). It has become the predominant system of delivering and receiving American ...

9. What Is Primary Care? Healthcare Services, Procedures, Doctors

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   Primary care providers are trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat conditions you may have across your whole life span. Primary care includes preventive services like diabetes and cancer ...