Chapter 13 1)What is health policy? How can health policies be used as regulatory or allocative tools?             2

Chapter 13

1)What is health policy? How can health policies be used as regulatory or allocative tools?

2. What are the principal features of U.S. health policy? Why do these features characterize U.S. health policy?

3. Identify health care interest groups and their concerns.

4. What is the process of legislative health policy in the United States? How is this process related to the principal features of U.S. health policy?

5.  Describe the critical policy issues related to access to care, cost of care, and quality of care.

1. What do you think the future of health policy will look like in the U.S.?

Chapter 14

1. Explain why the ACA of 2010 will fail to bring about universal access, even if it prevails.

2. What are the advantages of a single-payer system? Why are any attempts to reform the U.S. health care system not based on the single-payer approach?

3. What main elements must be present in a future model of care delivery in the U.S.?

4. What are the main workforce challenges that the U.S. must grapple with?

5. What type of health problems among the elderly call for specialized training in geriatrics?

6. What is evidence-based medicine?