Health Care Reform: the Macro Perspective
Andrew Ojo
HCS/550
December 16, 2013
Connie Melton
Health Care Reform, the Macro Perspective
Often a time individuals living in America wonders how the health care system could change for the better. One problem that has constantly troubled the minds of consumers have been the subject of health care cost and restrictions invoked by health care coverage providers. At the moment, most of the American people need quality health care services resulting mainly from lack of health care coverage. Here in the United States health care policy and health care service has become controversial domestic issue. Most Americans have this believe that there is a strain on their budgets resulting from how
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Assessment can also be referred to as conducting analysis. Conducting analysis involves three major steps; a. Identifying the owner of the policy or the representative form the constituency that such a policy affects by so doing that person can is able to push and monitor such a policy’s development. b. Determine the best policy path; this involves identifying which arm of the state, department, or constituency that best supports the policy. This will help gather votes for the support of the developing policy c. Pick a team; because most policy procedure documents are sometimes used by various groups a policy developer need to get experts who are specialized and will prepare a well-informed policy (Association of college and university policy administrators, n.d). 3. Create a Draft: this step requires policy developers or facilitators to draw out an actual paper work carefully defining the terms of a said policy, the committee here write out rules and regulations, guidelines or standards as it helps clarify a policy process. The member of the committee in this step all need a common ground and format to manage and produce the policy. When those involved in policy developing are operating at the same level in terms of access to information, consistency is guaranteed. Finding a common format during policy development help makes a policy
The first aim of this step is to ensure that the working group is well informed about the policy issue/s and is aware of all potential avenues or options available to them in developing and implementing the policy. To do this you can:
The first step in creating this a new policy is the idea on how to address the current problem. During this first step, brainstorming is often encouraged during the formulation process so that there is more than one potential solution to the problem (Lohrey, 2014). Another consideration for policy formulation is determining if the policy will need to involve local, state, and/or federal government involvement to be put on their agenda. There are many ways to approach any given problem, and during policy formation, relevant individuals (such as stakeholders and researchers) and groups will determine the different ideas to approach the proposed policy.
The formulation stage is very important, as this is the stage that must gather all information necessary to make an effective policy. Stakeholders and a committee will come together and discuss what
Step-1: Determine the purpose of the meeting: Before a meeting takes place, the purpose of the meeting should be determined. All the participants should be informed about the purpose of meeting beforehand, so that they come prepared and can contribute more.
Briefly describe a problem that concerns a number of the clients and/or workers in the agency that reflects a broader social/political problem. Describe how you, in collaboration with the clients & workers would design an advocacy plan to address the problem at a legislative level. Include your analysis of the context and your process of strategic planning.
The way in which my work place develop their policy and procedures is through the process of reflective practice. The company will hold an annual meeting involving quality assurance with the head of each department and discuss in these meetings if there needs to be any amendments not only in policy and procedure but with anything related to quality and how to improve, however they will not discuss every procedure as it can be irrelevant and time consuming. (Annual development Plan for Quality Assurance, 2014)
A policy cycle starts by identifying issues, and then moves through to analysis and implementation to evaluate the policy’s effects. There are three main stages in which a policy outline moves through. This is where an idea is developed, then acted on and the results are checked. (Althaus et al. 2007)
C) Provide students and parents with the information and resources needed to be informed in the decision-making
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Putting the decision to work for the manager or the policymaker is step 5. Rundall states, “Actionability questions include whether
Your Policy manual should provide a review of the systems and policies for communicating information on health, safety and security to staff, clients and visitors in accordance with the legislative requirements (Diagrams and flowcharts can be used here).
Write a policy for each of the above, and write a procedure to explain how each of the policies will be implemented. Four policies are four procedures are required
2- Lobby governments and powerful bodies to ensure promises are kept and international laws are respected
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In case of any emergency, the standards should be designed well and must be incorporated in the proposal policy so that it will not lead to any future problems. The policies must have the flexibility to update if they face any bad experiences and make sure that the same problems will not arise in near future.