Essay: Major events in health care reform

The health care reform political battle has been going on since the 1940s. This assignment is designed to help you understand the history of reform and analyze the ongoing political debate.

Create a timeline detailing at least five major events in health care reform:

•Include key dates, stakeholders, and outcomes of legislation.

•Include which party proposed the reform.

•Integrate the timeline into your assignment document.

Analyze the politics of health and health care:

•Explain the political climate surrounding the legislation in each major political reform era.

•Compare and contrast the current political climate to that of the past.

•Identify any recurring trends.

•Explain your opinion about what makes health and health care so politically charged and polarizing.

Format your analysis as one of the following:

•875 word paper

•Google docs or applications not supported by UOPX are not acceptable formats

Cite at least three peer-reviewed sources published within the last five years in an APA-formatted reference page.

Rubric

1) Creates a timeline with a minimum of 5 major health care reform events

2)Includes dates, stakeholders, and outcomes of legislation in the timeline

3)Provides a analysis of health care reform over the years:

~~Explains the political climate In each major reform era

~~Compares current political climate to that of the past

~~Identifies recurring reform trends

~~Explains opinion about what makes health care so political

4) Cites at least 3 peer-reviewed sources published within the last 5 years

5) Free of grammatical errors, language maintains a scholarly and succinct tone; structure is clear.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.