Policy Change Options Research Paper

Policy Change Options
Policy Change Options

Policy Change Options

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Policy Change Options

Three existing policy change options include incremental change, major change, or to do nothing. An incremental change, like most U.S. health policy change, would occur when policymakers limit themselves to a small subset of strategies to account for a lack of time or capacity in a highly complex and resource-intensive decision (Mason, Leavitt, & Chafee, 2014). A major change would include a larger-scale, more radical policy change. Finally, selecting the option to do nothing means that no change will be made to the policy.

Reference

Mason, D., Leavitt, J., & Chaffee, M. (2014). Policy & politics in nursing and healthcare (6th ed.). St. Louis, MI: Elsevier Saunders.

Explain three pros and three cons for each policy change option relating to your propose policy change proposal hear below.It is critical that the pros & cons are clearly writing in an expository manner with just enough information to understand your change.

The public policy problem is that section 2713 requires organizations to provide their workers with birth control as part of their insurance coverage. The public policy question is: should the federal government mandate that organizations can choose whether or not to provide contraceptive services to employees as part of their insurance coverage? The public policy resolution is an amendment to section 2713(a) (4) of PL 111-148 that would say: organizations – both for-profit and non-profit organizations – have the option of either offering their employees birth control as part of their insurance coverage or not to offer contraceptive services (Cauchi, 2014).

Here is an example of what the response is supposed to look like, but it should be based on the above propose policy change and not the one use hear in the example. This example is just to show the writer how to response to the paper. It is critical that the pros & cons are clearly writing in an expository manner with just enough information to understand your change.

Example of the pros and cons and how the paper will look like at the end, but it should be based on the above propose change.

Pros and Cons for Policy Change Options

Pros for the Option to Do Nothing

1. If nothing is done, the training demonstration program will offer support to family nurse practitioners.
2. If nothing is done, there will be no additional funding required.
3. If nothing is done, the policy will be implemented without delay.

Cons for the Option to Do Nothing

1. If nothing is done, nurse practitioners specializing in adult/gerontological care will not be included as part of the training demonstration program.
2. If nothing is done, the training demonstration program will only offer support to family nurse practitioners.
3. If nothing is done, there may not be an increase in adult/gerontology nurse practitioners to care for the rapidly growing elderly population.

Pros for the Incremental Change Option

1. An incremental change will allow for more time and resources to support the amendment.
2. An incremental change will allow for greater success in producing a nurse work force specializing in adult/gerontological advanced practice care.
3. An incremental change will allow the government time to make adjustments to the budget in order to support the inclusion of adult/gerontological nurse practitioners in the grant demonstration program.

Cons for the Incremental Change Option

1. An incremental change may allow for policymakers to repeal section 5316 of the PPACA.
2. An incremental change will take a longer period of time to implement than a major, radical change, or the option to do nothing.
3. An incremental change will require increased spending as the amendment will be evaluated and adjusted after implementation.

Pros for the Major Change Option

1. A major change will provide clinical training for adult/gerontological nurse practitioners, enabling them to serve as primary care providers in federally qualified health centers and nurse-managed health clinics.
2. A major change can be implemented immediately.
3. A major change will result in an increase in adult/gerontology nurse practitioners to care for the rapidly growing elderly population.

Cons for the Major Change Option

1. A major change may encourage nurses to pursue a career as an adult/gerontology nurse practitioner who are not committed to practicing in the specialty.
2. A major change will result in an immediate increase in government spending within the grant demonstration program.
3. A major change will result in opposition from advance nurse practice specialty groups (other than family nurse practitioners) who wish to be included in the grant training program.

Resources

Surprise: Obamacare is helping not harming traditional healthcare
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New Obama birthcontrol fixes for religious groups
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State Laws and actions challenging certain health reforms
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One place we don’t see Obamacare working-Our pay check
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Reader Friendly Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PL 111-148
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Here is a very reader-friendly website that offers a breakdown of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PL 111-148

SAMPLE ANSWER

Pros and Cons of Policy Change Options

Policy change is the action of changing how a particular task is done. The change can be incremental, major, or plainlyto do nothing at all.Adopting any of these change options has both pros and cons, though in varied measures.

Pros for the Option to Do Nothing
By doing nothing, the decision will save money, especially for the organization to carry out the incorporation of the provision of contraceptives to its employees. An example is when Obama ignored all the warnings from the medical trusteesabout the Medicare being expensive.

In addition, not to do anything will ensure that organizations do not experience deficits every year due to supplementary medical insurance trust fund. This could lead to the organizations not being financially stable.

Moreover, the ‘to do nothing’ will save the future of the organizations. By providing contraceptives to its employees, the organizations might experience double the debt it already has.

The ‘not to do anything’ approach will prevent fiscal imbalance in the organization. The organization will not reduce employees’ salaries in order to provide the contraceptives to every employee(Mason, Leavitt, &Chafee, 2014).

Cons for the Option to Do Nothing

If nothing is done, the company will not spend any money on offering contraceptives to its employees

In addition, the employees will not receive the contraceptives from their employers, hence, not enjoy complete health insurance cover.

Moreover, the organization will not be able to control the birth rate of its employees, hence, leading to increase in expenditure.

Pros for Major Change

Major change will ensure that more organizations are adopting the public policy of providing contraceptives to their employees.

In addition, major change will provide more sensitization to the organization on the relevance of providing contraceptives to its employees. This will in turn enhance more provision of  health care.

It will also ensure immediate implementation of the public policy, hence, faster provision of the healthcare.

Cons for major change

Major change will translate to opposition from some of the organizations, which do not have enough funds to provide each employee with contraceptives as part of their insurance policy.

In addition, it will also mean more expenditure on the part of the government in providing contraceptives to nonprofit organization.

In addition, it will promote provision of contraceptives to the employees by the organizations whose interest is not in the provision of  such services.

Pros for Incremental change

When companies adopt the incremental change in implementing the public policy, it will allow for more time and resources to support the policy of every organization providing contraceptives to its employees.

In addition, the whole process of providing contraceptives to every employee as part of the health insurance policy will be very successful in both the profit and nonprofit organizations

Moreover, the organizations will have more time to make adjustments to their budgets to cover for all the employees. This will ensure no stopping in the whole exercise of providing contraceptives to its employees.

Cons for incremental change

Incremental change will allow the legislators convenient time to amend the policy to suit all the organizations in the provision of the health care insurance cover to its employees.

Consequently, incremental change will consume more time in its implementation as compared to major change and not to do anything change.

In addition, the whole process is very expensive due to many changes from time to time. This might lead to the whole process of implementation not being very successful (Cauchi, 2014).

References

Democrats reframe debate on health care<http://news.yahoo.com/dems-reframe-election-debate-health-082837822.html?soc_src=copy

Mason, D., Leavitt, J., & Chaffee, M. (2014). Policy & politics in nursing and healthcare (6th ed.). St. Louis, MI: Elsevier Saunders.

New Obama birth control fixes for religious groups

<http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-offers-  accommodations-birth-control-172442035–finance.html?soc_src=copy

Richard Cauchi (2014.State Laws and actions challenging certain health reforms) <
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-laws-and-actions-challenging-ppaca.aspx

Surprise: Obamacare is helping not harming traditional healthcare
Yahoo Finance <http://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-surprise-obamacare-development–the-old-system-gets-stronger-191500716.html?soc_src=copy

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