Topic: What forces are driving our healthcare costs? (This requires identifying the cost drivers behind the rising costs of healthcare in the U.S. For example, Medicaid and Medicare are not drivers. They rise with increases in population, and administrative costs are fixed, so while rising, they are affected by drivers. What is behind the observable increases in expenditures across healthcare? More likely suspects might be increasing demand for the best by consumers, and technology perpetrated by providers, but there are others. Make a case for what you see as the drivers.)
Plan the approach and analysis you will take to address the question. Define your terms. Do not assume concepts like universal healthcare are commonly understood. If that were the term, one would need to describe who will provide what and how it will be achieved. There is no universal way that is done. You will also need to describe the context for some terms, like market. If you only mention market, the reader will not know if you mean the theoretical non-existent perfectly competitive model economists use as a beginning basis to discuss and explain how changes might be explained, or do you mean real market that is some combination of a planned and market system.
Qualify your discussion and explain the limits of it. For example, even after health service organization is defined, which ones or one you are meaning may need to be limited or described. Avoid making unfounded generalizations. Be precise and support your statements as needed.
Research your issue sufficiently. Include a minimum of three references from peer-reviewed journals. Use the Feldstein text, the resources in contents, like KFF. Analyze and summarize your sources in an organized way as you develop your analysis. Recognize the limits of your review of the literature, some sources being particularly relevant, and others not so much. If your conclusion varies from those sources that do not support it, explain how and why. Regardless how limited your analysis is, reach a conclusion, but reach one that can be supported given your ideas and the literature you discover.
The presentation format should be simple and in APA format. Use what you have learned in research classes. Include a title page and a list of references. You should specify your intent, address the question, analyze and summarize your sources, and develop your position and conclusion. Do this in no more than ten double spaced pages.
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