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Consider what you have learned about the Patient Protection and ACA, the uninsured population, health disparities, and programs and policies intended to improve quality of care and health outcomes while reducing healthcare expenditure. Summarize your thoughts on the future of healthcare given the provisions of the ACA—changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the individual mandate, etc.—and whether or not current efforts are sufficient to reduce disparities in healthcare and improve healthcare outcomes.

Tasks:
Evaluate the impact that the ACA has and will have on the uninsured population in the U.S.
Discuss the current successes and failures of this act.
Discuss the implications of this act’s successes and failures.
Explain specific policy changes that could be made to the ACA to improve its impact on overall health outcomes in the U.S.
From the Internet, review the following:

U.S. Health Policy Gateway. (n.d.). ACA Impact Analysis. Retrieved from http://ushealthpolicygateway.com/vii-key-policy-issues-regulation-and-reform/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-ppaca/ppaca-research-and-analysis/

**Please use 5 sources all with in text citation**

One of the most important activities associated with policy implementation is evaluation. There are a number of different types of evaluations including: process and outcome, formative and summative, and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness evaluations. There is no one evaluation that yields all of the information necessary to make an effective policy and, as such, different types of evaluation are often employed.

Choose one type of evaluation that is appropriate to health policy implementation activities and address the following:

Describe one implementation method and its purpose
Compare and contrast that implementation method with at least one other approach
Provide an example of how an implementation agency may utilize the chosen implementation method and the type of information generated

Explain why it is important to be aware of stereotypes, mental health, stress, and personality characteristics when communicating with others?

WRITE UP FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT (Use the attached file to complete assignment)
( Respond to each of the prompts below with several paragraphs of well-written thought, and feel free to use any notes you took while on this field trip. Be sure to restate each of these prompts in your response as you answer them )
1) Sum up your impressions of the Creation Museum in a few reflective paragraphs. What did you like about it and what did you dislike? Don’t just describe exhibits, be sure to comment on your opinions of them.

2) Should there be any restrictions or disclaimers attached to the use of the word “museum”? ( such as the approval or accreditation of an impartial review board for educational value and accuracy) ?
Should sites that fail to measure up to “museum” standards be required to change their name to “experience” or “theme park”?

3) Pretend you are back in high school in your senior year – Your class has been fundraising for the traditional senior class trip to Washington DC to visit the Smithsonian Institute – the Museums of History, Natural History, Air and Space, and Art.
Now a small but vocal group of students in your class is trying to rally support for a change in venue, where the whole group would instead visit the Creation Museum in Kentucky for 2 days. The final destination will be decided by a vote of the senior class.
Write a paragraph to the school newspaper expressing your support for the option of your choice, and give some good reasons to persuade others to vote for it.
4) Suppose each of the following museums were opened in your town. Would you pay to visit them or approve of spending town tax revenue to support them?
( Answer all, and explain your answer in a sentence or two for each one.)

a) A history museum that puts up a permanent exhibit claiming that the
Holocaust ( persecution and murder of Jewish people in Germany
during World War 2 ) never happened
b) An art museum that buys famous works of art by artists such as Van
Gogh and Picasso, or valuable first edition books like Gutenberg
Bibles, and then publicly burns them as performance art
c) A science museum that adds signage to every existing exhibit, attacking
and discrediting religious faith ( How does this differ from what the Creation Museum does?)
d) A history museum that has displays describing specific periods in
history but randomly mixes clothing and tools from all
times in history throughout its displays

e) A planetarium that describes the events of Star Wars as fact, and claims
to identify actual stars and planets in the sky as the sites of the
specific events in the films.

f) A science museum that has exhibits stating that everything in the Harry
Potter stories is true and that magic is real and based in science

What if a history museum presented this as an accurate map of America?
5) A few school districts in the Midwest and South have voted to require stickers pasted in Biology textbooks that say “Evolution is only one way of looking at the history of life on earth, but other viewpoints such as intelligent design should be considered as well.” ( Many science teachers in these districts are strongly against this.)

Do you think requiring these stickers is fair? Why or why not?
If a district requires religious explanations to be included in science classes, then should a discussion of Evolution be required in all religion classes offered by churches in the district? Should Bibles have to contain stickers saying “Evolution should be considered as an alternative to the Book of Genesis?”
Should teachers that present creationism as a viable alternative to evolution in their science classes also be required to discuss Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and Native American creation stories? What about the possibility that humans were “seeded” on Earth by UFO aliens? The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? The belief in “Last Thursdayism” ( the idea that the Earth has only existed since last Thursday, and that every piece of evidence suggesting otherwise is an elaborate prank being played on us by a mischievous creator )?

6) A 9 year old child you’re babysitting tells you about discovering the Creation Museum webpage online, and gushes to you about all the cool science facts that they learned there – For example, that dinosaurs lived at the same time as people, that the Earth is really only a few thousand years old, that the Grand Canyon formed in one day, and that marriage only counts between a boy and a girl.
How would you respond? Assume that the child’s parents are average church-goers who attend services locally but don’t know anything about (or contribute financially to) the Creation Museum.

Reflection Paper
Submit a reflection paper detailing your journey through the internship; from beginning to end. Describe what you have learned through this experience. Has your thinking about your career path changed? What would you have done differently now that you have had this experience?, etc.
I have attache my journal you can use it to write the reflections paper

Define Newspeak and Doublethink as it exists in the novel 1984. In what ways are Newspeak and Doublethink dangerous ideas? Are they always dangerous, or can they sometimes be positive? Discuss the importance of these concepts in the George Orwell’s novel 1984 and give examples. Provide two real-world examples of newspeak and doublethink.

Double spaced. Times New Roman

5-7 page (double-spaced) paper reflection of what was covered in class.

• Write about topics that compelled you to reflect on life situations or were of interest to you. Perhaps there were compelling facts revealed in the textbook or the videos that were new to you. Begin with an introduction regarding what you learn in class that serves as a road map for what you will talk about. (5 points)

• You are required to use at least 5 vocabulary terms from the chapters in Schaefer. Do not use common words such as racism, discrimination, minority group, ethnicity, culture, and other ordinary terms. Make sure to provide the definitions for the terms within the essay. Use the vocabulary terms when writing your paragraphs on chapters and videos. Vocabulary terms must be underlined or in bold font. Please make sure this occurs when you copy and paste your essay. (15 Points)

• Please write a combination of at least 3 different videos and chapters from Schaefer. [2 videos and 1 chapter or 2 chapters and 1 video]. Each should be at least 500 words. Remember, you can discuss more, but 3 is the minimum. Please write about each in separate paragraphs. Use headings (45 points). Please reflect on:
1. Why you chose that video or chapter.
2. What you learned
3. Main point(s)
4. Interesting facts

5. Importance of the article or video content.

• Conclusion: How, if in any way at all, has taking this class enlightened you and changed the way you think about your and other ethnic groups and race relations in the United States. (10 points) – at least 500 words.

Relationships take work. ALOT of work! Sometimes, you can save a relationship by adjusting your attitudes and behaviors and sometimes, the best thing for the relationship is to end. Dr. John Gottman is a leading researcher in psychology and centers his work around relationships and their communication patterns. It is his theory of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse that we turn to when we analyze the death of a relationship.

Prompt:
Watch the two videos uploaded above.
Locate a relationship that has ended, or seems to be ending. This relationship can be your own, a friend’s, a family member’s, or it can be a relationship from a film, TV series, book, etc.
Using the file provided below, I want you to analyze that relationship using the 4 horseman of the Apocalypse theory. You will notice that each stage has at least one antidote. Therefore, it is your job to analyze the relationship using each horsemen, but also prescribe the antidote. What actions, attitudes, can the relationship change to save the relationship.

Complete a 3-5 page assessment template discussing the continuum of patient care, care quality, and communication between physician practices and hospitals.

These are the instructions given:

Your essay should be no less than 500 words, but no more than 750 words in length. The word count excludes any title or cover pages, figures, tables, graphs, diagrams, and also excludes your bibliography or references list. Put simply, only the substantive part of your essay (introduction, ‘body’ paragraphs and conclusion) will count towards the allocated number of words. You do not need to include an abstract or summary of your essay. Although the structure of the essay is up to you, as a rough guideline, you might want to consider using the following setup for your essay: 1 paragraph for your introduction; 2 to 4 short paragraphs for the ‘body’ of your essay, and 1 paragraph for your conclusion. We suggest you use a standard font type, like Arial or Times New Roman or Helvetica, size 12 font, with 1.5 line spacing.

Introduction and Conclusion
Suitable introduction and conclusion paragraphs are written. For example, the introduction ‘sets the scene’; gives background or context to your argument; defines any particular concept(s) where necessary; outlines the path of particular argument you would like to take, and the conclusion summarises with some key points of discussion with the intention of arriving at a reasonably thought-provoking end to the essay.

Discussion

The discussion section (‘body’) of the essay is crafted in such a way that the reader is presented with a coherent and convincing argument (or set of arguments) that might reasonably persuade the reader to think more deeply or differently about the topic at hand.

Examples

The use of one or more real-world examples strengthens the writer’s argument, and helps the reader to see linkages between economic theory and real-world application.

Referencing

In addition to other sources used, one or more peer-reviewed academic sources (i.e., from academic journals) have been used, and all sources are correctly cited in the text and collated in a bibliography or references list using the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition style of referencing.

Some Thoughts About How to Write Your Essay

A general discussion entails arguing for or against something (i.e., looking at different opinions for or against the topic question). It may also take on a more ‘balanced’ perspective, in which, you do not necessarily pick a particular line of argument for or against something, but rather consider both perspectives in a reasoned way. A critical discussion would take this a step further by looking at the strengths and weaknesses of various opinions, which might also include comparing and contrasting various perspectives (i.e., looking at similarities and differences). How you decide to discuss the essay topic is very much up to you, and you are free to choose one or more sources of market failure as you build your discussion accordingly.

PLEASE NOTE: What we are most interested in seeing is the quality of your discussion (instead of the quantity of your discussion) and the type(s) of argument(s) you make, based on the skills, knowledge, attitudes, and values (SKAVs) you have acquired; the real-world example(s) you choose to use, and theoretical and applied evidence you draw on from credible sources (e.g., peer-reviewed academic journals or published textbooks) in developing your relatively short discussion.

Some Ideas and/or Examples to Get You Started

This essay discussion is essentially about the sources of (private) market failure. Think intently about the assumptions of the (perfectly) competitive market model. For instance, there are numerous sources of market failure (e.g., imperfect competition, imperfect information, public goods, and externalities). From the outset, what market failure means for the equilibrium price and quantity traded is very much part of your investigation and essay discussion. Two examples of possible avenues to pursue in your discussion could be as follows: First, think about the role information plays in market transactions. Competitive market transactions rely on there being perfect information or information symmetry amongst buyers and sellers. But, what if there’s missing information or one party to a market transaction knows something that the other doesn’t know (imperfect information or information asymmetry)? What are moral hazard and adverse selection, and why are they important in, for example, the various insurance industries (e.g., health, life, property insurance etc.)? Second, think about the role externalities play in market transactions. Competitive market transactions assume there are no externality effects. But, where a negative externality exists, what role do property rights play? What’s the Coase Theorem? There’s a LOT of scope for you to exercise your critical thinking skills here, and the writing of the essay topic itself helps guide (scaffold) you by asking you to focus on the what, the why, and the how of the essay question posed.

Amount of sources needed is flexible, but preferably 4+ sources. Thanks