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It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember.

Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the second U.S. president, John Adams. In 1798, Adams signed legislation requiring that 20 cents per month of a sailor’s paycheck be set aside for covering their medical bills. This represented the first major piece of U.S. healthcare legislation, and the topic of healthcare has been woven into presidential agendas and political debate ever since.

As a healthcare professional, you may be called upon to provide expertise, guidance and/or opinions on healthcare matters as they are debated for inclusion into new policy. You may also be involved in planning new organizational policy and responses to changes in legislation. For all of these reasons you should be prepared to speak to national healthcare issues making the news.

In this Assignment, you will analyze recent presidential healthcare agendas. You also will prepare a fact sheet to communicate the importance of a healthcare issue and the impact on this issue of recent or proposed policy.

To Prepare:

The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Comparison Grid, 1-Page Analysis, and 1-page Fact Sheet)

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid

Use the Agenda Comparison Grid Template found in the Learning Resources and complete the Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid based on the current/sitting U.S. president and the two previous presidential administrations and their agendas related to the public health concern you selected. Be sure to address the following:

  • Identify and provide a brief description of the population health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.
  • Describe the administrative agenda focus related to the issue you selected.
  • Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.
  • Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue.

Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis

Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid on the template, complete the Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis portion of the template, by addressing the following:

  • Which administrative agency would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected?
  • How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the agenda for the current and two previous presidents? How does it stay there?
  • Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue you selected for the current and two previous presidents?

Part 3: Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief

Using the information recorded on the template in Parts 1 and 2, develop a 1-page narrative that you could use to communicate with a policymaker/legislator or a member of their staff for this healthcare issue. Be sure to address the following:

  • Summarize why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation.
  • Justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues.

****APA format— Template is provided— Please read over rubic.

Please incorporate these resources and follow rubric.

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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Enhancing Environmental Health Content in Nursing Practice, Pope, A. M., Snyder, M. A., & Mood, L. H. (Eds.). (n.d.). Nursing health, & environment: Strengthening the relationship to improve the public’s health. Retrieved September 20, 2018.

Hi! Just APA format and use the template provided, please. Also, review the rubric. On part 1 for Q’s 2-4, please use at least 3 resources. On part 3 (narrative), please use 2 outside resource and at least 2-3 resource that is provided on the details provided. Thank you!

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Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.  

President Trump recently tabled his administration’s 2021 budget to Congress. One striking detail about his budget is the failure to allocate funds for repealing the ACA, something he promised to do. The president wishes to allocate $844 billion within ten years (Cohrs, 2020). These funds will be used to institute and implement policies centered on increasing transparency with respect to health care costs, reducing drug costs, and increasing competition within the health care system.

  

President Obama’s administration committed $2 trillion, distributed over the span of ten years, to expand and reduce healthcare costs (Ventola, 2009). The administration also received additional resources to the tune of $44 billion from the CHIP Reauthorization Act. The ARRA also provided $787 billion to help offset some of the bills incurred during the introduction of health care reforms, one of which was a reduction in the cost of medical services (Ventola, 2009).

  

In his final budget proposal to Congress, which coincided with President Bush pushing for the enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act, the president indicated that his administration would allocate $3.1 trillion to the health care system (Reinhardt, 2006).  $12.8 billion would go the Medicare while $ 18.2 would go to Medicaid programs, distributed over a span of five years. The money would help increase insurance coverage and reduce health care costs for the previously uninsured Americans.

 

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