HCA 255 Health Policy and Economic Analysis Discussion Essay Assignments

HCA 255 Health Policy and Economic Analysis Discussion Essay Assignments

HCA 255 Health Policy and Economic Analysis Discussion Essay Assignments

HCA 255 Week 1 Discussion 1 & 2

Discussion 1

According to the World Health Organization a policy encompasses a broad range of laws, guidelines, regulations, and habits necessary to maintain the health infrastructure. Identify a policy proposed or enacted at the federal or state level. Summarize the policy and discuss how the measure works to support the health infrastructure.

Discussion 2

Now that you have practiced researching health policies, describe your experience. Was the information readily accessible? Were you able to fully understand the intent and scope of the policy? What would be needed in order for the general public to understand this information and become involved in the policy-making process?

HCA 255 Week 2 Discussion 1 & 2

Discussion 1

Health policy is profoundly influenced by value-driven issues that cut across the entire U.S. policy landscape. View the “Stakeholders” multimedia presentation:

http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/HCA 255_stakeholders.php

Describe the concerns presented by two of the stakeholders and discuss your position (i.e., for or against) in the current debate regarding value-driven health policy.

Discussion 2

What is your personal position on the HHS Policy for Women’s Preventative Services Coverage? Does the HHS policy infringe upon religious liberties outlined by the U.S. constitution? Why or Why not? Provide rationale for your position.

NOTE: Rulings can be found at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance oversight:

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HCA 255 Health Policy and Economic Analysis Discussion Assignments

HCA 255 Week 3 Discussion 1 & 2

  Discussion 1

View the video “How a Bill Becomes a Federal Law”:

http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/the-legislative-process-how-a-bill-becomes-a-federal-law

View “The Iron Triangle of Healthcare” multimedia presentation:

http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/HCA 255_triangle.php

Summarize the legislative process and describe the relationship between cost, quality, and access depicted by the Iron Triangle.

Discussion  2

View the video “One School’s Fight: The Making of a Law,” located at the following link:

http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/one-schools-fight-the-making-of-a-law

Describe how the school was able to get a bill passed in congress in order to solve its funding problems. How might this process be applied to solve a problem in health care?

HCA 255 Week 4 Discussion 1 & 2

Discussion 1

Many argue that America needs to eliminate debt, increase economic growth, improve education and reform health care. If you were the current U.S. President how would you prioritize the needs of the country? In what order would you rank these needs and why?

Discussion 2

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the cost of health care increases by approximately 4% each year, exceeding $3 trillion in 2012. What societal changes have affected the cost of health care? How has the government responded to contain and reduce health care spending? What role should government play in controlling the cost of care and ensuring health coverage?

HCA 255 Week 5 Discussion 1 & 2

Discussion 1

Discuss the differences in the way federal and state governments address health care spending.

Discussion 2

Read about the health insurance marketplace via the following link:

https://www.healthcare.gov/what-is-the-health-insurance-marketplace/

Has your state chosen to participate in the health insurance marketplace? Why or why not? What is your perspective on this new approach to offering health insurance coverage?

HCA 255 Week 6 Discussion 1 & 2

Discussion 1

Max Points: 5.0

View the health reform video developed by the Kaiser Family

Foundation:

Explain the changes created by the Affordable Care Act.

Discussion 2

In addition to guaranteeing access to coverage to everyone regardless of preexisting health conditions, the Affordable Care Act requires all citizens to obtain health insurance or risk paying a penalty. Information regarding this requirement is explained here:

Some consider this an infringement on constitutional rights while some consider this an opportunity to ensure all citizens receive basic health services. What is your position on this issue and why?

HCA 255 Week 7 Discussion 1 & 2

Discussion1

Discuss how the value-driven health care approach differs from current practices.

 2

How will the new health system under the Affordable Care Act affect the way personal and lifestyle habits (e.g., overeating, excessive drinking, smoking) and health care costs are managed?

HCA 255 Week 1 Government Agencies and Health Policy Research Paper

Details:

Research a federal agency within the U.S. federal government. Consider the complexity of the issues that decision-makers at this agency must consider. Write a research paper of 1,200-1500 words addressing the following:

1. Describe the function, mission and scope (work) of the federal agency you have selected.

2. Discuss the types of issues this agency addresses.

3. Describe the impact this agency has on health care policy and delivery.

4. Identify at least one current initiative the agency considers a priority.

5. Provide a summary of the initiative.

6. Describe how and why a health policy analyst needs to consider policy problems using political and legal analysis.

A minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the Style Guide located in the Student Success Center.

HCA 255 Week 2 Analysis of a Stakeholder Presentation

Details:

As the health care reform debate moves forward, there has been a lot of discussion about stakeholders and potential winners and losers. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation containing 10-15 slides in which you:

1. Select a stakeholder from among the stakeholder groups described in class.

2. Describe the stakeholder’s position on health care reform.

Provide rationale. Explain why the stakeholder has taken this position.

While format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using documentation guidelines, which can be found in the Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

HCA 255 Week 3 U.S. Health Care System Paper

Details:

Write a research paper of 800-1,200 words comparing the U.S. health system to another country’s health system.

Focus on whether the other country has achieved adequate health outcomes and if it has managed to do so for less money.

A minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the Style Guide located in the Student Success Center.

HCA 255 Week 4 Social Contract Position Essay

Details:

Review the sections on “Cost Shifting Hits Private Plans” and “Responding to Cost Shifting” in Chapter 3 in Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach. These sections discuss a concept of a shift in thinking and practice that is sometimes referred loosely as “breaking the old social contract” that existed in health care before managed care. The social contract concept provides for responsibilities between the government and individuals to be set forth in a negotiated agreement, hence the “social contract”. In this instance, the arena for negotiation and compromise we are concerned with is health care.

In a paper of 800?1,200 words, reflect on the social contract concept. 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.

Provide a minimum of three references.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

HCA 255 Health Policy and Economic Analysis Discussion Assignments – Week 5 Health Reform Plan Paper

Details:

Consider why the Clinton Health Reform Plan in the 1990s never passed.

Review the Health Care Reform media:

http://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/nur508_healthcare-reform-video-series-v1.1.php

Include the following:

1. How does Obama’s Affordable Care Act of 2010 compare with Clinton Health Reform Plan?

2. Discuss the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act.

3. Discuss three changes would you recommend to improve on the legislation?

Your paper should have a word count of 800-1,200 words and a minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the Style Guide located in the Student Success Center.

HCA 255 Health Policy and Economic Analysis Discussion Assignments – Week 5 Quiz

Which of the following factors that affect supply do NOT shift the supply graph to the right?

Technological changes

Size of the industry

Weather

Input prices

There is a negative relation between income and the demand for health care: the richer the country, the greater the demand for health care.

True

False

__ costs are easily identified because a recent market transaction is available to provide an accurate measure of costs

Implicit

Direct

Explicit

Indirect

In general, goods and services which are close substitutes have higher price elasticities

True

False

_ is the sole provider of a good or service in a well defined market with no close substitutions.

Perfect competition

Oligopoly

Monopoly

Oligopolistic competition

• _______ examines how changes in market conditions influence the positions of the demand and supply curve and cause the equilibrium price and quantity to change.

• Marginal private benefit

• Marginal private cost

• Comparative statics•

If the percentage increase in the quantity consumed is greater than the associated percentage increase in income the good is called___

• Superior good

• Inferior good

• Normal good

A good for which income elasticity is positive but less than one. The good is called a(n) ___

Superior good

Normal good

Inferior good

• The ___ effect would encourage the substitution of other consumer goods for investment in health as one ages.

• substitution

• addition

• subtraction

• Which is not a state health incentive?

• The Health Plan

• Hawaii’s Universal Coverage

• Minnesota Care

• California Universal Health Coverage

HCA 255 Health Policy and Economic Analysis Discussion Assignments – Week 6 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 that outlines the elements of the current program and the governor’s proposals for improved access.

A minimum of three scholarly sources must be cited.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the Style Guide located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

HCA 255 Week 7 Quiz

The healthcare system in the U.S. is unique and unparalleled to other countries’ systems.

True False

• Countries with a socialist background have been moving toward the decentralization of healthcare delivery thereby allowing more of a private sector.

• True False

• Health policy is a problematic issue throughout the world, but it is particularly challenging in the U.S., where there is no consensus about which government agency or social institution, if any, has the legitimate role of developing or implementing national health policy.

• True False

Those who propose a one-size-fits-all approach to solving health care problems are operating in a simplistic world that ignores the complex interests of the industry’s multiple stakeholders.

True False

Physicians and their professional organizations have sought to maintain a near monopoly over health care decision making but this “power of the profession” has been waning.

True False

Although employers have experienced changing concerns is has not influenced the evolution of our health care system

True False

A review of the efforts in many countries shows that there is no magic bullet, that the healthcare system is the product of a social context, and that many measures and many accommodations are needed to achieve good care at reasonable costs.

True False

The current U.S. healthcare system evolved through a political process influenced by trends in culture, technology, demographics, economic development, and through experimentation.

True False

The “iron triangle” refers to cost, quality and acceptance.

True False

Healthcare reform proposals that address access problems seldom mention issues related to supply of services available or the impact of a large increase in volume on prices and costs.

True False