To prepare for this assignment, review the key components of the health care policy process in Ch. 3 of Health policymaking in the United States. Additionally, Chapters 5-9 of the course text are also excellent resources for each stage of the policy process. Here is a breakdown of what you can find in each chapter of Longest (2016):
Chapter 5: Formulation
Chapter 6: Legislation
Chapter 7: Implementation
Chapter 8: Implementation/Analysis/Evaluation
Chapter 9: Analysis/Evaluation and Revision
The policy cycle provides lawmakers with a pathway for developing a policy and guiding it through the institutions of our government. The cycle starts with identification of a targeted problem and ultimately ends up with providing a specific course of action. Along the way, the outcomes of a policy are subjected to various levels of review, evaluation, and revisions that result in a continual loop. As a health care administrator, it’s important to have a working knowledge of the process and how the process ultimately leads to implementation of health care laws that eventually will have an impact on what you do.
Write a word paper that explains the policy process and explains how the Affordable Care Act advanced through the policy process stages. Your paper must include the following:
1.Discuss five stages of the policy process identified in Longest (2016)– to describe each stage:
Formulation
Legislation
Implementation
Evaluation/analysis,
Revision
2.Explain how the Affordable Care Act advanced through each stage of the policy process
How the law was formed/proposed and then passed by Congress
How it has been implemented and what agencies primarily implement the law
One or two ways the ACA can be evaluated
List at least one revision to the law since it has been passed
