HLTH 8301 Week 11 Discussion: Future scan: Issues Affecting the Healthcare System
This week’s readings touch on numerous issues affecting the healthcare industry now and in the future. Which of these issues has the potential to impact you either professionally or personally? Which of these issues are of particular concern and interest in your career as a healthcare administrator?
Resources
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
To prepare for this Discussion:
- This week, you examined the many potential issues and changes that can affect the healthcare system. Based on the knowledge you have gained throughout this course, consider what you think to be the most important or pertinent healthcare policy issue affecting the healthcare industry today. How might this issue improve healthcare costs? How might it transform the way health care is delivered? How might it change the way people access health care in the future? Think of an issue that has both current and future implications.
- For example, in the Learning Resources, you explored elements and reports in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s Next Generation ACO model in 2016–2021. This overview offers a good example of current trends affecting relevant healthcare issues such as cost and access to care.
By Wednesday
Post your Discussion, to include the following:
- Based on insights you have gained throughout this course and the Learning Resources from this week, explain what you think is the most pertinent healthcare policy issue with the potential to transform the way health care is delivered. In your post, make sure to include the following:
- Outline the policy in question with a brief history and background of the issue it addresses or does not address well.
- Outline the barriers to passing (or defeating) this policy and posit solutions as to how to overcome these barriers. These barriers may include insurance coverage, eligibility, or reimbursement.
- Analyze the stakeholders involved in this issue and the effects passing the policy (or changing/defeating the policy) may have on their outcomes and interests.
- Provide a rationale for implementation of a policy brief from a legal, ethical, and operational perspective. Be specific and provide examples.
- Lastly, make recommendations (i.e., changes in policy, changes in delivery of care, changes in focus for legislation, changes in insurance coverages or reimbursement) for current and future practice.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
Refer to the Week 11 Discussion Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this grading rubric to assess your work.
By Friday
Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:
- Share an insight that you gained from having read your colleague’s initial post.
- Expand on the Discussion by explaining how the healthcare policy issue identified by your colleague might influence or impact your work as a healthcare administrator, manager, or leader.
- Explain how your understanding of legal, ethical, and policy issues might influence your decision making as a healthcare administrator, manager, or leader.
Continue engaging in the Discussion through Sunday.
SOLUTION HLTH 8301 Week 11 Discussion: Future scan: Issues Affecting the Healthcare System
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Policy Background and Significance
The ACA, enacted in 2010, sought to expand healthcare access through Medicaid expansion, the individual mandate, and health insurance exchanges (Obama, 2017). While it significantly reduced the uninsured rate, millions of Americans remain without coverage, particularly in states that did not expand Medicaid (Bailey et al., 2021). The introduction of a public option—government-sponsored health insurance available alongside private plans—has been proposed as a solution to further reduce the uninsured rate and provide more affordable choices (Blumenthal et al., 2020). The policy aims to address gaps in insurance access, control rising healthcare costs, and improve overall public health…
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(FINAL ANSWER) HLTH 8301 Week 11 Discussion: Future scan: Issues Affecting the Healthcare System