Determine which arguments are the most plausible. Provide a rationale for your views.

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Write a five to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
(Note: Refer to Review Question 8 located at the end of Chapter 3 for criteria 1-3. Select two (2) editorials / essays / columns (by staff or freelance writers) on a current issue of public policy from two (2) different publications (large metropolitan or national newspaper such as Washington Post or the New York Times or national magazines such as Newsweek, Time, and The New Republic.)
Visit the online library at http://research.strayer.edu to read these titles.
1. Apply the procedures for argumentation analysis (located in Chapter 8) to display contending positions and underlying assumptions for the content of Review Question 8.
2. Determine which arguments are the most plausible. Provide a rationale for your views.
(Note: Refer to Demonstration Exercise 1 located at the end of Chapter 3 for criteria 4-6. Examine Box 3.0 – Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis. Choose one of the following policy issues in the U.S.: gun control, illegal drugs, medical insurance fraud, and environmental protection of waterways, job creation, affordable health care, or Medicare.)
3. Apply the procedures for stakeholder analysis to generate a list of at least five to ten (5-10) stakeholders who affect or are affected by problems in the issue area chosen for analysis. (Note: Refer to the textbook for a step-by-step process on stakeholder analysis.)
4. After creating a cumulative frequency distribution from the list, discuss new ideas generated by each stakeholder. (Note: The ideas may be objectives, alternatives, outcomes causes, etc.; ideas should not be duplicates.) Refer to the following video for a reminder on how to calculate cumulative relative frequency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBX9aNdOYDg.
5. Write an analysis of the results of the frequency distribution that answers the following questions: (a) Does the line graph flatten out? (b) If so, after how many stakeholders? (c) What conclusions can be drawn about the policy problems in the issue area?

How does culture shape how you receive and interpret information and communication about health, disease, and illness?

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Purpose: Medical anthropologists have dedicated significant effort to documenting practices and health systems around the globe, from indigenous and tribal communities and urban metropolises to farming communities and groups of migrant workers. In the process they have identified a vast array of healing practices and health systems created by people worldwide- ideas about the causes of health and disease, and varied cultural strategies for addressing pain, curing illness, and promoting health. In this Assignment you will explore how health knowledge is constructed in your life and how culture has shaped your experience of disease and illness.
Instructions:
Consider your strategies for getting healthy or staying healthy. In a 4-6 page paper, answer the following questions:
1) Whom do you consult for health information? (examples- parent, doctor, pharmacist, religious figure, literature, friend, etc.).
2) How does culture shape how you receive and interpret information and communication about health, disease, and illness?
3) What strategies do you use to get well? How did you learn these strategies? (examples- eat particular food, take particular supplement, use medicines).
4) Is there a social cause of illness or disease? What role does social stigma play in whether we do or do not seek treatment
5) What do you think getting sick says about you as a person? Does this depend on symptoms? (example- cold, fever, diarrhea, sexually transmitted disease, heart attack).
6) How does our culture value health in general?

Define own-price elasticity of demand, and explain how it is related to the demand curve. Provide four reasons why the demand for medical services is likely to be inelastic with respect to its price.

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  1. In your own words, use utility analysis and production theory to explain why the demand curve for medical care is downward sloping.
  2. After reading the chapter on demand theory, a classmate turns to you and says, “I’m rather confused. According to economic theory, people demand a good or service because it yields utility. This obviously does not apply to medical services. Just last week I went to the dentist and had a root canal, and you can’t tell me I received any utility or satisfaction from that!” Explain to your classmate how utility analysis can be used to explain why he went to the dentist.
  3. Use a graph to illustrate how the following changes would affect the demand curve for inpatient services at a hospital in a large city. a. Average real income in the community increases. b. In an attempt to cut costs, the largest employer in the area increases the coinsurance rate for employee health care coverage from 10 percent to 20 percent. c. The hospital relocates from the center of the city, where a majority of the people live, to a suburb. d. A number of physicians in the area join together and open up a discount-price walk-in clinic; the price elasticity of demand between physician services and inpatient hospital services is À0.50.
  4. Many elderly people have purchased medigap insurance policies to cover a growing Medicare copayment. These policies cover some or all of the medical costs not covered by Medicare. Use economic theory to explain how these policies likely influence the demand for health care by elderly people.
  5. If you are covered by a private or a public insurance plan, obtain a pamphlet outlining the benefits provided and the cost of the plan. Are there any copayments or deductibles? If so, use economic theory to explain how they may influence your demand for medical care.
  6. In your own words, explain what a fuzzy demand curve is. Why does it exist? What are its implications? 15 BUS508 – Economics of Health and Medical Care Course Syllabus
  7. In reaction to higher input costs, a physician decides to increase the average price of a visit by 5 percent. Will total revenues increase or decrease as a result of this action? Use the concept of price elasticity to substantiate your answer.
  8. You have just been put in charge of estimating the demand for hospital services in a major U.S. city. What economic and noneconomic variables would you include in your analysis? Justify why each variable should be included in the study, and explain how a change in each variable would likely affect the overall demand for hospital services.
  9. Define own-price elasticity of demand, and explain how it is related to the demand curve. Provide four reasons why the demand for medical services is likely to be inelastic with respect to its price.
  10. You are employed as an economic consultant to the regional planning office of a large metropolitan area, and your task is to estimate the demand for hospital services in the area. Your estimates indicate that the own-price elasticity of demand equals À0.25, the income elasticity of demand equals 0.45, the cross- price elasticity of demand for hospital services with respect to the price of nursing home services equals À0.1, and the elasticity of travel time equals −0.37. Use this information to project the impact of the following changes on the demand for hospital services. 
    a. Average travel time to the hospital diminishes by 5 percent due to overall improvements in the public transportation system. 
    b. The price of nursing home care decreases by 10 percent.
    c. Average real income decreases by 10 percent. 
    d. The hospital is forced to increase its price for services by 2 percent.

Consider the social, economic, ethical, legal, and political forces that have shaped the policy and delivery of services.

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Write a 3850- to 6650-word paper, on the Affordable Care Act. The body of the paper must be approximately 3850 to 6650 words not counting the title page, abstract and references. Research Question: (What effect did the ACA have on the government budget?) Include: An abstract, introduction and background, Literature Review, Analysis section and Conclusion. Include the following in this section (Introduction) of your paper: • Title page • Introduction and background • Purpose statement • Research questions • Definition of terms Literature review that includes the articles from the Annotated Bibliography assignment and connects those articles to your problem, purpose, and research questions. Articles: Blumenthal, D., Abrams, M., & Nuzum, R. (2015). The affordable care act at 5 years. In: Mass Medical Soc. Cannan, J. (2013). A legislative history of the Affordable Care Act: How legislative procedure shapes legislative history. Law Libr. J., 105, 131. Jacobs, L., & Skocpol, T. (2015). Health care reform and American politics: What everyone needs to know: Oxford University Press. McDonough, J. E. (2011). Inside national health reform (Vol. 22): Univ of California Press. Sommers, B. D., Buchmueller, T., Decker, S. L., Carey, C., & Kronick, R. (2012). The Affordable Care Act has led to significant gains in health insurance and access to care for young adults. Health affairs, 32(1), 165-174. Young, K. M. (2006). Health care USA: Understanding its organization and delivery: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Analysis section for the Final Integrative Paper. Include the following elements in the Analysis section: • Synthesize findings from the literature review with the policy topic for the project. • Explore the effect the policy has had on the segment of the health care delivery area. • Consider the social, economic, ethical, legal, and political forces that have shaped the policy and delivery of services.