HCM 320 Final Project Milestone Two
HCM 320 Final Project Milestone Two
HCM 320 Final Project Milestone Two
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Product Description<br />
Overview: In this milestone, you will submit a first draft of your open comment letter.<br />
An open comment is an informed opinion written in the form of a letter to counsel<br />
authors of legislation on the perceived benefits and consequences of the opinion. It<br />
should include background on the key health issue and your assumption of the risks<br />
inferred by the legislative action (i.e., unintended consequences, public reaction,<br />
loopholes, etc.). The economic analysis should be more complete than that of your<br />
executive summary, taking into account the nature of the U.S. healthcare system,<br />
socioeconomic factors, behavioral models of stakeholders that shape interpretations<br />
and outcomes. The document should not be based solely on emotion, though it<br />
should not be divorced of sentiment as it needs to rouse the proper energy needed to<br />
effect change. The goal of the document is to convince the reader that your<br />
suggestions for inclusion, exclusion, and adaptations to the legislation should be<br />
included in the final version of the action.<br />
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:<br />
Open Comment Letter<br />
a. Describe how the intended consequences of the legislation will positively and/or<br />
negatively impact the key health issue that it is tasked to affect once applied to a<br />
realistic environment.
. Differentiate between the manner in which the major tenets of the legislation<br />
would be interpreted by a health economist, health practitioner, and/or consumer of<br />
healthcare services.<br />
c. Summarize the logical interpretations of the legislation in a document with a<br />
member of Congress as the proposed audience.<br />
d. Hypothesize the outcomes of the legislation in a document with a member of<br />
Congress as the proposed audience.<br />
e. Decide whether the key health issueis being served by creating or subduing<br />
supply, demand, or cost of healthcare services and which stakeholder group<br />
(providers, consumers, or payors) bears the primary responsibility for its<br />
implementation.<br />
f. Discern to what extent the legislation will impact the reimbursement and/or<br />
financial health of providers operating as for-profit, nonprofit, military, or<br />
government-sponsored care financing models.<br />
g. Propose changes to the legislation that could be adopted tofurther affect<br />
socioeconomic determinants of health such as poverty, education, and diversity.<br />
h. Propose what tactics could be implemented to ensure that the initial intent of the<br />
legislation could be safeguarded against perversion by macroeconomic forces and<br />
agents looking to exploit those forces to their advantage.<br />
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should be no longer than five pages (not<br />
including references and supporting appendices) with double spacing, 12-point Times<br />
New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.