This retrospective, or backward-looking, use is closely connected with praise and blame, punishment, and desert. When something has gone wrong, we invariably want to know who was at fault; and when something has gone right, we occasionally stop to ask who acted well. This is the topic of retrospective responsibility.
RACA [ISBE] RACA - ra'-ka, ra-ka'> (rhaka, Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek with Codices Sinaiticus (corrected), Vaticanus, Codex E, etc.; rhacha, Tischendorf with Codices Sinaiticus (original hand) and Bezae; Aramaic reqa', from req, empty): Vain or worthless fellow; a term of contempt used by the Jews in the time of Christ.
As part of the efforts to fight fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare program, the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, required a national Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program to be in place by January 1, 2010.