Category: Regulation Policy in Healthcare

Week 5 Final Project – Worth 250 Points
Instructions
NCF:
This final project assignment is associated with the NCF (non-completion failure) grade. Failure to complete this assignment will result in the issuance of a grade of NCF if the course average would result in a failing grade in the course. Students should contact their Academic Counselor or Program Director if they have any questions regarding the NCF grade and its implications.
Supporting Lectures:
Review the following lecture:
Incrementalism in Policy Making
Consider what you have learned about the Patient Protection and ACA, the uninsured population, health disparities, and programs and policies intended to improve quality of care and health outcomes while reducing healthcare expenditure. Summarize your thoughts on the future of healthcare given the provisions of the ACA—changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the individual mandate, etc.—and whether or not current efforts are sufficient to reduce disparities in healthcare and improve healthcare outcomes.
Tasks:
Evaluate the impact that the ACA has and will have on the uninsured population in the U.S.
Discuss the current successes and failures of this act.
Discuss the implications of this act’s successes and failures.
Explain specific policy changes that could be made to the ACA to improve its impact on overall health outcomes in the U.S.
From the Internet, review the following:
U.S. Health Policy Gateway. (n.d.). ACA Impact Analysis. Retrieved from http://ushealthpolicygateway.com/vii-key-policy-issues-regulation-and-reform/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-ppaca/ppaca-research-and-analysis/
Submission Details:
Submit your response in a 4- to 6-page Microsoft Word document.
On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.
Name your document SU_MHA6050_W5_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
By the due date assigned, submit your work to the Submissions Area.
Special Instruction/Notes for the Project:
Research is required for each section (a minimum of/at least three different citations per section). Note that the rubric calls for explicit research. At least three separate academic citations/sources per section!
Please show where all bullet points start and end.
Please provide a well-defined conclusion. All submissions are to have a conclusion.
Please provide three pages explaining and answering the questions.
Please ensure no substantial (huge) spacing gaps between the individual paragraphs and references.
Please make sure that the individual references are in alphabetical order.  

Week 4 Project
Instructions
Supporting Lectures:
Review the following lecture:
Policy Implementation Activities
Exploring Medicare
The U.S. created Medicare, a publically funded healthcare program, to assist people sixty-five years of age and older in obtaining healthcare services.
Tasks:
Summarize the legislation that introduced Medicare and the funding source for the program.
Discuss some of the changes that have occurred in the Medicare program since its inception.
Describe the demographics of the population covered by Medicare and identify the number of people in the U.S. covered by Medicare.
Assess how changes in Medicare will affect the citizens and legal residents in your state. Include specific demographic information on age, race, income, etc., for your state to justify your response.
From the Internet, review the following:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. (2017). CMS’ program history. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/History/index.html
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. (2015). The Affordable Care Act and Medicare. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/about-us/affordable-care-act/affordable-care-act.html
Cubanski, J. (2016, December 13). What are the implications of repealing the ACA for Medicare spending and beneficiaries. Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/what-are-the-implications-of-repealing-the-affordable-care-act-for-medicare-spending-and-beneficiaries/
Submission Details:
Present your response in a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.
Name your document SU_MHA6050_W4_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
By the due date assigned, submit your work to the Submissions Area.
Special Note
Special Instruction/Notes for the Project:
Research is required for each section (a minimum of/at least three different citations per section). Note that the rubric calls for explicit research. At least three separate academic citations/sources per section!
Please show where all bullet points start and end.
Please provide a well-defined conclusion. All submissions are to have a conclusion.
Please provide three pages explaining and answering the questions.
Please ensure no substantial (huge) spacing gaps between the individual paragraphs and references.
Please make sure that the individual references are in alphabetical order.