starting from the assumption that regulation and accreditation are intended to assure quality and access and to help control costs, begin your discussion with one or two sentences about whether you think health care is over-regulated or under-regulated or take some in-between position. Then support your position with information from the Lesson One readings, a minimum of one outside peer-reviewed or professional sources, your experience, what you have learned this term, what you know about the ACA, what you’ve thought about while considering NHI politics, and your basic approach to government and voluntary regulation. The articles in your reading assignment outline a variety of ways health care is regulated and the problems of finding the right amount of regulation in the U.S. Implementation of the ACA has introduced volumes of new regulations. You may choose a general theme or focus on a specific type of regulation. If you are an avowed Democrat or Republican, you MUST support your economic/political positions with facts, not just a sort of knee-jerk expression of your politics. In other words, if you believe that the government should be doing more or less regulation, support your position with specific examples of what good (or harm) might be precipitated by your position or the opposite.
-Be sure you list your references at the END of your presentation.
-As a reminder, your video needs to be on to earn full credit for that section of the rubric.
This is not an easy assignment! You must examine your usual stance, consider where we are in health care today, consider upcoming crises of reform, lack of reform, and think about the problem as a taxpayer of the United States, as a health care consumer (patient), and as a leader in the health industry.
Read the following:
Chapter 13, Health Policy
Chapter 14, The Future of Health Care Services Delivery
Blum, J.D. (2006). Efficiencies in health care regulation: Observations near and far. Annals of Health Law, 15(2): 309–319.
Schimmel, N. (2012). Regulating U.S. health care. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/regulating-us-health-care.html (Note: If you like, you can easily find the post to which Schimmel refers and that focuses primarily on k-12 education but mentions health care).
Plein, L. C. (2014). An uncertain federalism: the states and the Affordable Care Act. Journal Of Health And Human Services Administration, 3(350).
Costello, M.M. (2017). Regulating Pharmaceutical Pricing: Why is Europe More Aggressive than the US? The Journal of International Management Studies. 12(1): 42-46 http://www.jimsjournal.org/7%20Michael%20M.%20Costello.pdf
Kaiser Family Foundation. (2020). Public opinion on single-payer, national health plans, and expanding access to Medicare coverage. Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer-national-health-plans-and-expanding-access-to-medicare-coverage/
Garfield, R., Orgera, K., & Damico, A. (2019). The Uninsured and the ACA: A Primer – Key facts about health insurance and the uninsured amidst changes to the Affordable Care Act. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/uninsured/report/the-uninsured-and-the-aca-a-primer-key-facts-about-health-insurance-and-the-uninsured-amidst-changes-to-the-affordable-care-act/
Stoltzfus Jost, T. (2017). The morality of health care reform: Liberal and conservative views and the space between them. The Hastings Center Report, 47(6), 9-13. doi:10.1002/hast.774
Govtrack.us. (2007). HR 676 (110th): The United States National Health Insurance Act. Retrieved from http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr676
