Week 1
Homework help – Discussion
Your state legislature is considering the following health
policy proposal: Mandating that all female
students entering the 6thgrade obtain the cervical cancer vaccine.
Homework help – Discuss the policy and economic questions associated with this proposal.
Interest groups do not have the power to pass
laws; however, they can and do influence policy decisions. Provide examples and
discuss how interest groups have influenced health policy decisions. For
example, motorcycle helmet laws â if we know that the use of a safety helmet
can protect individuals from severe head and neck injuries in an accident, why
do some states not have full helmet laws for all motorcycle riders?
Week 2
Homework help – Discussion
Health policy is profoundly influenced by value-driven issues
that cut across the entire U.S. policy landscape. Describe both positions
(i.e., for and against) a current debate regarding a value-driven health policy
issue.
What interests in health policy do you bring to
this class? McLaughlinâs Table 1-1 specifies the knowledge and skills called for
in a policy analyst. Homework help – Discuss for which of these areas do you currently
feel prepared, and in which ones do you want to gain competence? Why?
Week 3
Homework help – Discussion
Argue the following statement: Despite our
relatively high level of healthcare expenditure, we may still be getting enough
for our money.
Homework help – Discuss the social forces and other issues
behind the move toward industrialization. Does industrialization threaten
professional autonomy and control? If yes, why? If no, why? Please provide
examples to support your position.
Week 4
Homework help – Discussion
There may be a great deal of debate about
the monopoly power of the medical profession. Homework help – Discuss whether the following
statement is true: âIt is clear that the profession once exerted that power and
that the power of the profession has been waning.â Please provide examples to support
your responses.
What
role should government play in controlling increases in the cost of care and
the cost of health coverage? What different choices do state and federal
policymakers have in containing costs.
Week 5 Homework help – Discussion
Homework help – Discuss why those who propose a one-size-fits-all approach to
solving health care problems are operating in a simplistic never-never land
that ignores the complex interests of many stakeholders.
Homework help – Discuss why large and small employers seem to have different
interests.
Week 6 Homework help – Discussion
Table 5-1 inHealth Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary
Approachis long, but
it is not intended to exhaust the possibilities. What federal government
alternatives would you like to add to that array? Post and defend your
alternatives for inclusion in an expanded Table 5-1.
Homework help – Discuss why obtaining true free market
competition would require considerable government intervention.
Week 7 Homework help – Discussion
Homework help – Discuss value-driven care initiatives in relation to
pay-for-performance and medical home initiatives (demonstration projects).
Homework help – Discuss the different interests (and why) medical
professionals and the institutions they work in can have ? even when they present
a united front to the consumer.***************
Assignments
Week
2 Assignment – Health Policy Reflection Paper
Details:
Think about the
complexity of the issues that decision makers must consider when analyzing
health policy problems and write a reflective paper of 500?750 words,
addressing your position on the following:
Describe
how and why a health policy analyst needs to consider policy problems using
political and legal analysis.
Prepare
this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
Week 2 Assignment – Analysis of a
Stakeholder Pape
Details:
As the health care debate moves forward, there has been a lot of discussion
about stakeholders, and possible winners and losers.
Write
a research paper of 750?1,000 words, addressing the following:
1.
Select one stakeholder (e.g., AMA, ANA, insurers, hospitals, drug companies).
2.
Describe the stakeholder’s positions on healthcare reform.3.
Why has the stakeholder taken these positions?4.
A minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited. Remember that Wikipedia is
not considered a scholarly source. Prepare
this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
Week 3 Assignment – U.S. Health Care System Paper
Details:
Write a research paper of 500?750 words, addressing the following:
Compare
the U.S. health care system to another country’s health care system focusing on
why another country can achieve better health outcomes for less money?
A
minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited. Remember that Wikipedia is
not considered a scholarly source. Prepare
this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
Week 4 Assignment – Social Contract Position Essay
Details:
Review
“Breaking the Old Social Contract” on page 70 in Health Policy
Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach and write a paper of 500?750 words
reflecting on this new social contract.
If
you were to think about a new social contract, what would it be? Think in terms
of two contracts: one between the citizenry and the state, and one between the
professionals and the health care system.
Prepare
this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
Week 5 Assignment – Health Reform Plan Paper
Details:
Write
a research paper of 500?750 words on the following:
1.
Why did the Clinton Health Reform Plan in the 1990s never pass?
2.
Homework help – Discuss three changes that would make the healthcare act better.
3.
A minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited. Remember that Wikipedia is
not considered a scholarly source.
Prepare
this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center.
This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
Week 6 Assignment – Health Care Access Paper
Details:
Search
for proposal(s) by your state governor to deal with a health care access
problem and write a paper of 1,250?1,500 words on the following:
1.
Outline the elements of the current program and the governor’s proposals for
improved access.
2.
A minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited. Remember that Wikipedia is
not considered a scholarly source.
Prepare
this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. This
assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade
the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning
the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations
for successful completion of the assignment.
