Managed care in the United States health care system

This assignment is designed to guide you as you start your research for the Final Paper. Review the criteria for your Final Paper. Then, use the following guide as you write your proposal and bibliography:
I. Paper Proposal: For the Final Paper, you are to choose a topic related to the future of managed health care delivery. Describe the topic that you will be covering. Explain why you chose it and how it relates to the future of managed health care delivery systems.

II. Annotated Bibliography: Provide an annotated bibliography of at least five of the required eight to ten scholarly sources you will be using to write your Final Paper. An annotated bibliography for this purpose is one that is in APA format and is followed by a brief description of how the resources are relevant to the topic of your paper.

Your Assignment:

Must be three- to- five pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must have a cover page that includes:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must have a Paper Proposal of one-to- two pages in length.
Must have an Annotated Bibliography of one- to- two pages in length.
Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

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.