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A 3 page research paper that defines "public policy" and relates this to healthcare issues. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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chronic illness (Bodenheimer, Chen and Bennett, 2009). The federal government is currently embroiled in debate on how to formulate effective public policy in regards to how formulate public policy to
address the fact that millions of Americans do not have health insurance. The following discussion defines what is meant, specifically, by the term "public policy." Public policy is a general
term that refers to what governmental agencies "choose to do or not to do about public problems" (Kraft and Furlong, 2010, p. 5). In other words, public problems are those
that the public considers current conditions to be unacceptable and therefore necessitating intervention. Public policy, at its simplest level, can be understood as referring to the sum total of
all governmental activities (Peters, 2007). Furthermore, as the US is a federal system, in addition to the public policy decisions made in Washington, the various policies enacted at the state
and local governmental levels also impact societal problems (Peters, 2007). There is also the fact that private institutions, such as healthcare organizations, endeavor to devise policy at the private level
that, while no mandated by law, also has the power to create beneficial impacts on problematic issues. In general, public policy that is required by law becomes more important when
attempts by private institutions have been unsuccessful in addressing a problem. While administrated separately, Moon (2005) notes that the public and private sectors, that is, the administration of
the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs (public) and the administration of healthcare institutions (primarily private) are highly related. The policy decisions made for one can greatly influence the costs and
operating procedures of the other. For example, the current health reform legislation proposed by President Barack Obama can be understood as basically expanding the current Medicare and Medicaid programs
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