Healthcare Reform

HCM 590 Term Paper
This assignment is an in-depth, literature-grounded analysis of a significant health policy issue. The final term paper is to be approximately 810 ten pages in length (excluding the list of references cited at the end); apply and cite at least ten high-quality references, and address the following ten elements:
1) Overview and Significance of the Health Policy Issue
2) History of the Health Policy Issue (Including Legislative Processes and
Partisan Politics)
3) Current Challenges Associated with the Health Policy Issue
4) Stakeholder Analysis
5) Policy Options and Analysis of Trade-Offs
6) Policy Recommendations
7) Recommended Roles for Federal Government, State Government, and
Markets
8) Implications of the Policy Recommendations
a) Analysis of Population Health Implications
b) Analysis of Economic Implications
c) Analysis of Political Implications
d) Analysis of Implications for Health Care Organizations
e) Application of Two Saint Leo University Core Values
9) Conclusion
10) References Cited
The Final Term Paper must also follow APA format including:
Double-spaced
1-inch margins left, right, top, and bottom
12-point font
The cover sheet, table of contents, index, pictures, long quotations, or multiple quotations will not count toward the 810 pages.
There is an APA Guide in the course home menu, under Resources. If you need further assistance with APA formatting and style, click on the Writing Format and Style Guides link. (This link will take you to the Purdue Owl Online Writing Lab.)

HCM 590 Term Paper
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1. Overview and Significance of the Health Policy Issue
Knowledge, Research Depth, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

2. History of the Health Policy Issue (Including Legislative Processes and Partisan Politics)
Knowledge, Research Depth, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

3. Current Challenges Associated with the Health Policy Issue
Knowledge, Research Depth, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

4. Stakeholder Analysis
Knowledge, Research Depth,
Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

5. Policy Options and Analysis of Trade- Offs
Knowledge, Research Depth, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

6. Policy Recommendations Knowledge, Research Depth,
Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

7. Recommended Roles for Federal Government, State Government, and Markets
Knowledge, Research Depth, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

HCM 590 Term Paper
8. Sections A-D Implications of the Policy Recommendations
Knowledge, Research Depth, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

8. Section E
Implications of the Policy Recommendations
Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Core Values Consideration

9. Conclusion
Knowledge, Research Depth,
Critical & Analytical Thinking, Synthesis, Analysis, and Comprehension

10. Organization, formulation, logic, and identification of key points.

11. Grammar, word choice, terminology, and spelling.
Proper use of APA formatting style

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