For example, after insurance companies began putting pressure on hospitals to discharge new mothers very soon after giving birth, the health community mobilized to pressure Congress to force insurance companies to change their policies. This effort resulted in a law forbidding insurance companies to force new mothers and their babies to leave the hospital prior to forty-eight hours after birth. The local communities are the counties, cities, and individual communities that compose a state and collectively, the nation. Elderly constituents were not satisfied with the bill's provisions and strongly protested against it. Congress responded to their objections and ultimately repealed the act.
Local communities are ideally the most important elements in the regulation and enactment process.
Theoretically, they have the most powerful position in a democracy because they elect the leaders. The research community is composed of academic, private, and governmental research institutions that are the foundation for scientific discovery and progress. Scientific and technological advance is the driving force for scientific regulation mandates. Scientific progress thus acted as a catalyst for a new presidential agenda item. Similarly, the research community can perform regulatory functions.