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How widespread? Who is primarily impacted? What are the most recent stats on this issue? How can you highlight the problem and making it relevant for the legislator. Is there a price tag to this issue?

Policy Brief Assignment Part 3

Who is affected? How many are affected? How has the problem been addressed in the past?

Identify the cause(s) to which the problem is attributed and its consequences What causes this problem? What are the consequences/impact?

What is it you are asking of your legislator- to support the bill, vote against the bill, add something that is missing in the bill, etc? What information do you need to provide to get them to “buy” your “product”? How can you tie this in with previous positions they have taken?

How widespread? Who is primarily impacted? What are the most recent stats on this issue? How can you highlight the problem and making it relevant for the legislator. Is there a price tag to this issue?

Is it pending, in committee – which committee, who introduced it and when? Who is supporting it? Has it been introduced before under a different bill number? If so how many times has it died in committee?

Describe your efforts to create this brief? Who did you send it to? Did you get any response? What did you learn from creating this brief?

Discuss the major points of the law. Then, analyze the facts of the hypothetical situation against that law to explain how the employee broke the law.

This week, you learned that health care is an extremely regulated industry mostly because of the especially vulnerable nature of its customers: the patients.

Legislators have created numerous laws to control everything from the process of insurance to how a patient must be treated and what they must be told by medical personnel.

Individuals who break these laws can be subject to civil or criminal liability, so it is extremely important that every healthcare worker knows and understands the laws related to his or her job.

For this discussion prompt, you will use the St. Martha’s General Hospital Scenario.

After reviewing that scenario and reviewing the laws that you learned this week,  discuss a healthcare law that may have been broken by an employee of St. Martha’s General Hospital. Identify any scenario where the law has been broken.

Discuss the major points of the law. Then, analyze the facts of the hypothetical situation against that law to explain how the employee broke the law.

Support your ideas with evidence from your readings.

https://webapps.srm-app.net/CanvasContent/SF/WCU_HA_500_DE_TEMPLATE/Presentations/St%20Martha’s%20Hospital%20Scenario/story_html5.html

How is research used to produce effective public health care policies in order to spend public resources wisely?

Healthcare in the US is financed

The focus of this assignment is to gain a better understanding of the variety of factors that impact how healthcare in the US is financed and what role research plays in policy decision making. Further, you will learn about who your representative are, which will be useful in future assignments.

Discussion Board Items—Refer to Discussion Board Guidelines and Grading Rubric as you complete these items.

1.What forces have had an effect on increasing health cost over the past 30 years?

2.How is research used to produce effective public health care policies in order to spend public resources wisely? Give one example.

3.Identify your legislators for the state and national level.  include the name of your state, district numbers for both your state level representatives and senators, as well as those on the national level. To respond to this item, you will have two US senators, one US Congressman, one state senator and one state representative. (I live in Dayton, Ohio)

4.What contexts inform crafting/developing/creating policy?

5.Why should legislators use research evidence in public policy making?

6.Why are effective programs not always implemented?

Becker, S., Dunn, L., & Gamble, M. (2014, August 1). 10 key policy issues facing healthcare. Becker ‘s Hospital Review. Retrieved from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/10-key-policy-issues-facing-healthcare.html

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation website with information concerning health care cost. Health Costs. (2018). Retrieved from http://kff.org/health-costs/

View the slideshow: Kamal, R. & Cox, C. (2017, December 20). How has US spending on healthcare changed over time? Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker. Retrieved from https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spending-healthcare-changed-time/?_sft_category=spending

Kamal, R. & Cox, C. (2016, February 9). How US health spending compares to other countries and social determinants. Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker. Retrieved from https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/a-comparison-of-social-determinants-in-the-u-s-and-comparable-countries/?_sf_s=health+spending+compared+to+other+countries#item-start

Kamal, R., Claxton, G, Cox, C. & Sroczynski, N. (2016, August 18). How health spending varies by demographics in the US. Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker. Retrieved from https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/how-health-spending-patterns-vary-by-demographics-in-the-u-s/?_sf_s=health+spending+by+demographic