Question

The director has received your Memo and is interested in your choice of a health policy concept as a possible way to secure 12 million in federal funding. The director would like a Policy Brief on the subject. Since this Policy Brief might require some research time, the director has requested a Policy Outline in the interim period.

Please submit a maximum 1000-word outline regarding your health policy concept.

• What are the basic facts of this policy? • How would this policy affect cost, quality, and access? • What are the challenges or barriers regarding the implementation? • What are the execution costs of this policy? • How will the policy be evaluated?

Please support all your ideas with reputable sources if possible.

Answer 1

As required by the director, the outline of my choice of a health policy concept that can act as a way of securing 12 million in federal funding will be as follows:

Basic facts of this policy:

• Overcoming issues that impact the cost and coverage of heath care.
• Introducing better heath care plans.
• Determining progress of the assigned heath care programs on regular basis.
• Proper division of funds to several core elements of health care sectors.
• Proper inspection and auditing to determine the actual need of funds

The manner in which this policy can affect cost, quality, and access:

• By application of formulas it can be determined and calculated that how better services can be provided without impacting the quality of services after cutting cost to certain limit.
• By keeping a strict check on quality of health care, its quality can be ensured and this will be a top concern of my heath policy concept.
• Also the accessibility of heath care services will be a point of concern in this heath policy. Health care should by available to all.

Challenges in the implementation of this health policy concept:

• Private heath care providers might resist in implementing this policy as they might fear of losses from the concept of providing quality heath care at affordable cost.
• Public heath care might resist in implementing this policy because of the fear of following the policy strictly without any loopholes.

Execution costs of this policy:

• By reforming payment system,
• Allowing consumers to choose cost effective ailments,
• Rewards can be paid for healthy behaviour.

Evaluation of Policy:

• By comparing past performance of heath care providers and by comparing the performance after implementation of policy.
• The improvements or defects can be identified by this comparison.