Week 2 – Assignment: Differentiate Between Forms of Health Policy
For this assignment, you are a health policy and analysis student seeking a summer externship at Joe & Jane Law Firm, a major health policy analysis consulting firm to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Health. During your interview for an externship, the law clerk of Joe & Jane asks you to demonstrate your knowledge of the different forms of U.S. health policies. You have been tasked with writing an essay differentiating and analyzing the different forms of health policy.
In your response to the clerk, consider and discuss the following:
Identify and explain one health policy enacted in each of the following categories
Please do not use the examples provided.
- Federal (e.g., Health Information and Portability Act (HIPAA) or state (e.g., Texas Family Code § 160.754. dealing with surrogacy)
- Executive Department Rule or Regulation used to implement a health policy (An example of an Executive –Department would be the Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, or another governmental agency)
- Common law ruling – a decision rendered by a court like Roe v. Wade
For this assignment, be sure to address the following:
- Identify the problem each policy was created to solve.
- Determine whether it is accomplishing the purposes for which it was originally enacted.
- Explain if the policy has been amended since it was passed, and if it has been amended explain how it was amended.
- Explain whether the health policy is currently implemented in every state.
- Determine if there are states not implementing the policy, and if they exist, explain why; or, identify and explain their objection(s) to the policy.
3 to 4-page essay
