The Policy Process: Formulation, Legislation and Implementation

The American Health Care system needs to be constantly improved to keep up with the demands of America’s health care system. In order for the American Health Care system to improve policies must be constantly reviewed. Congress still plays a powerful role in public policy making (Morone, Litman, & Robins, 2008). A health care policy is put in place to reach a desired health outcome, which may have a meaningful effect on people. People in position of authority advocates for a new policy for the group they have special interest in helping. The Health care system is formed by the health care policy making process (Abood, 2007). There are public, institutional, and business policies related to health care developed by hospitals, accrediting organizations, or managed care organizations (Abood, 2007). A policy is implemented to improve the health among people in the United States. Some policies

This is when the public has the chance to get involved in the policy making process.

It is also important to emphasise that Health service providers such as the NHS are involved in the social policy making process, which seeks to achieve different goals, establishing targets and points of reference in the short, medium and long-term. Policies will give the outline of priorities and an overview of the role of different groups. It also builds consensus as well as inform people.

This assignment requires that I develop and thoroughly analyze a public policy in order to advocate for one that improves the health of the public and/or the nursing profession globally (local, state, national or international). To do this, I must reflect on several aspects of being a policy maker within the nursing profession. I was instructed to consider the following:

Health policies, whether allocative or regulatory, are presented, debated, and decided on through the legislative process. It is the responsibility of all nurses to understand the many steps to this process, recognize problems that require attention, and know how they are able to influence the decision making process (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2014). The required steps for a bill to become a law include: introduction, committee consideration, floor scheduling, House and Senate consideration, difference resolution, and Presidential action. Only after successful passage through all steps can a bill be delivered for submission into public law.

Research informs the policy making process by revealing patterns and themes, such as financial costs and crime severity, that previously may have remained unknown. As evidenced in Tierney's "Prison populations can shrink when police crowd streets" (2013, para. 13), the introduction of a computerized system in the New York police department to track crimes led to more vigilant enforcement that ultimately led to a decrease in the overall prison population and saved the city $1.5 billion annually in costs related to law enforcement and incarceration. The computerized system, which was designed to better track violent crime trends, provided qualitative data that could be applied throughout the city to instill a more efficient police force. While arrests for misdemeanors increased from the new policy, violent crimes decreased, ultimately lowering the prison population.

In the United States, the process by which topics become public policy are the topics of animated cartoons for children (i.e., Schoolhouse Rock!'s "I'm just a bill"), but far less known is the specific process by which healthcare topics go on to become formal policies. Because every healthcare policy has the potential to affect all American healthcare consumers, it is important to understand the process by which a topic eventually becomes a policy. To this end, this paper provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning the three stages by which topics become long-term policies in healthcare, followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning these issues in the conclusion.

The agenda setting has ability to influence the decisions or issues on public agenda. Agenda setting is first step to initiate the health policy making process by deciding the decisions about policy formulation. This step includes three activities are- problems, possible solutions to the problems and political circumstances. According to king dons conceptualization, when all these three activities flow equally then for law "window of opportunity" opens. So this helps for development

As defined, “Executive orders are official documents through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the federal government. Presidential directives guide the federal rulemaking policy and are signed or authorized by the President” (Tehan CRS). While not specifically described in the Constitution of the United States, every president has used them. Article II of the U.S. Constitution states that “executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States,” and “he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” While Congress is understood to be the primary institution in the policy-making process, ambiguity about the meaning of “executive power” and “faithfully execute” has opened the door for

Policy development is the procedure of making choices as to how to address public issues. Assessment and investigation provide the suggestion groundwork for the expansion of policies that determine which practices to support, how resources need to be allocated, and how efforts should be mobilized to achieve the defined policy goals (Katherine Hunting). Legislative efforts have facilitated to inspire the delivery of immunizations within a patient-centered medical home. Requiring insurance to cover the cost of

In the past few weeks, Amanda Bolden, Jessica Guerra, Spencer Kilpatrick, Alyssa Kurtz and I worked together on our group project titled, Policy Analysis and Advocacy. The purpose of the group project was not only to allow students, the instructors as well, to investigate and develop superior awareness of health policies political and societal influences. Additionally, this project strived to provide students with an opportunity to analyze such political and societal influences on the implementation and successfulness of health policies (HP) and then untimely, the impact of HP on America Healthcare System.

The process of implementing a health care policy involves important steps of legislation formulation before execution and monitoring for progression and improvements. Committees and subcommittees on levels of the government, state, and local legislation are inclusive in ensuring the policy is enacted both efficiently and effectively. To accomplish these goals and objectives legislators must develop rules and regulations that align with goals and objectives, and take precautions to form the proper language to explain the actions suitable toward a successful operation. Some steps in the process are repeated each time a modification in the policy occurs. Examination of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), justification of the policy, the responsibility of legislative committees appropriated to the policy, the implementation process, and the impact on the community, are addressed in the contents of this paper.

The countries health is determined by the health of its citizens, therefore, an effective health care policy making process is important. The potential health care policies in the United States (U.S.) go through a complex system before getting passed into law. The problem is not in the complexity of the system, but in the testing of the potential and official health policy for potential alternatives and interventions to reduce negative outcomes of the health policy (McLaughline & McLaughlin, 2014). Instead of expanding Medicare I would focus on changing how potential and official policies are tested. Recurring evaluation of a policy is the only way to improve this country health care needs. However, if I was the president I would make

Establish a committee dedicated to educate, enforce and provide outreach programs for the affected with the use of IDEO’s creativity process.

The Effectiveness of the Legislation and Policy Reforms in Practice In this essay I will set out to identify key legislation, which has impacted and shaped the lives of my particular client group, adults with learning disabilities. Learning disabilities can be hard to define, but it is widely accepted that impairments in the ability to read, write, spell, speak or perform any mathematical calculations can lead to a diagnosis of learning disabilities. The campaign group Values into Action defines learning disabilities as “A disorder in one or more of the basic cognitive and psychological process involved in understanding or using written or spoken language”. I will give an overview of service