Prior pieces of legislation that have come across in recent months and years would be the updates and changes to Medicare, HIPAA and a few others. As the Mayo Clinic continues to implement new and advanced technologies and services like telemedicine, it pushes and lobbies for Congress to include these services within the basic scope of federally funded programs like Medicaid, the national program to provide healthcare services at an affordable rate to people with little to no income but that yet have healthcare needs that need to be addressed (Hiers, 2015)
These different leaders could find themselves at great odds when it comes to different subjects, issues and points of debate (Barnato, 2016). The very high stakes and vicious rancor of the current United States election cycle that is dominated by Donald Trump and his candidacy against Hillary Clinton will just add proverbial gas to the fire irrespective of who actually ends up winning (Meyer, 2016)