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Focus of the Final Paper
The U.S. health care system
has numerous known issues that affect the overall quality, access, and cost of
services available. For your Final Paper, you will create an eight- to ten-page
proposal (excluding the title and reference pages) on your solution to one of
these issues. In the proposal, you will describe the nature of the issue, trace
the history of its development, describe what has and has not been done to
address it thus far, provide a set of recommendations on what should be done to
address it in the future, and discuss how major stakeholders should be involved
to make your proposed changes.
Select one of the following
issues in health care for the topic of your Final Paper:
1. The cost of health care
2. The health care workforce
3. The uninsured and
under-insured population
4. Medical and health
information technology
5. Select your own topic. If
you would like to use a topic other than the ones listed above, you must get
approval from your instructor by the end of Week Two of the course.
Specifically, you should
address the following in your proposal:
1. Executive Summary: Provide
a brief overview of content of your proposal.
2. Statement of the problem:
Define and analyze the major problems related to this issue.
3. History of the problem:
Review the major developments in the evolution of this problem in the U.S. How
did this issue develop historically? How did we get to where we are now?
4. International context:
Compare and contrast this problem in the U.S. to that of other countries. How
does this issue in the U.S. compare to other countries? Is the issue more
common here or in other countries and why?
5. Stakeholders: Describe
the role of major stakeholders in the problem. How have federal and state
governments and the health care industry worked to address this issue so far?
What have been the successes and failures of their attempts?
6. Policy: Have the
P.P.A.C.A. and other federal policies addressed this issue? What has been the
impact of their action or non-action?
7. Recommendations: What
should the government, the health care industry, and health care consumers do
to address this issue in the future? Which stakeholders need to be involved to
implement these recommendations and how? Provide a justification for why you
believe each recommendation will address one or more of the problems related to
this issue.
8. Conclusion: Construct a
brief conclusion that highlights the key points from your proposal and
describes the expected outcomes if your recommendations were to be implemented.
