D 2

Review the following lecture:

• Process of Health Policy Making: Key Features (see below)

Current Health Law Efforts

Health law is constantly changing and morphing due to the efforts of interested parties or stakeholders. Some of the proposed changes benefit citizens while others appear only to further the interests of corporations. It is important to understand the influence of politics, for example, on policy. For this assignment, you will have the opportunity to explore current news items related to health law and policy.

From the Internet, review the following:

• Kaiser Health News. (n.d.). The Health Law. Retrieved from https://khn.org/topics/the-health-law/

Choose a current news item of interest and include the following information in your discussion post:

• ***Health policy discussed
• ***Invested parties
• ***Potential pros and cons of recommended change

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your posting should be a minimum of 200 words in length.

Process of Health Policy Making: Key Features

The public policy making process is impacted by external factors to a great extent. For its part, the process impacts the larger environment. Situations and preferences of individuals, organizations, and groups influence policy making. Biological, biomedical, cultural, demographic, ecological, economic, ethical, legal, psychological, science, social, and technological variables, as well as legal variables need to be taken into consideration during the process.

 The public policy making process can be modeled to involve three interactive and interdependent phases: policy formulation, policy implementation, and policy modification. The process is also cyclical, in that all decisions are subject to modifications, largely based on evaluation and feedback. It is also an inherently political process because decisions are made by humans. Therefore, the push and pull of human altruism, egoism, self-interest, bias, greed, etc. may influence the process, making it a less than rational pursuit. However, good policies take all these constraints into account in order to achieve optimal outcomes.