Watch President Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, perhaps the most explicit presidential endorsement of Christian faith in recent times. As you watch this presentation, prepare and post your written answers to the following speech presentation analysis questions: What is this speech’s topic?

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Description: Watch President Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, perhaps the most explicit presidential endorsement of Christian faith in recent times. As you watch this presentation, prepare and post your written answers to the following speech presentation analysis questions:

  1. What is this speech’s topic?
  2. What is the speech’s thesis or main point?
  3. What in the speech, if anything, suggests the speaker (or his speech writers) had analyzed the audience and adapted the speech to its needs?
  4. Did the speaker use effective and relevant material to support the speech’s thesis?
  5. Was the speech effectively organized?
  6. Did the speaker use clear, interesting, and accurate language?
  7. Was the quality of the speaker’s voice acceptable?
  8. Were the speaker’s movements and gestures meaningful and effective?

You must explain the observations and the reasoning that justify your answers to these questions. The more thoughtful, detailed, and documented your observations and explanations, the better the quality of your work.

Grading Criteria: Be sure to satisfy each of the following grading criteria:

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Be sure to provide thoughtful, detailed answers to each of the 8 questions and to support your observations by citing supportive parts of the Reagan speech presentation.

Explain the basic structure of health insurance and analyze its most important part. Describe the main purpose of health insurance in your own words.

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The present health care system relies on public and private health insurance systems. On the basis of your understanding of the health insurance system, answer the following questions:

  • Explain the basic structure of health insurance and analyze its most important part. Describe the main purpose of health insurance in your own words.
  • What impact do you think health insurance has on our economy today?
  • Explain why managed care was incorporated in the US health care system long ago? Describe and contrast the three types of managed care plans—HMOs, PPOs, and POS?.
  • Should the same individuals who pay for your health care (managed care organizations [MCOs]) also make your treatment decisions? Why or why not?
  • Is the fee-for-service (FFS) system more beneficial for the consumer than the current MCO system? Why or why not? Explain.

Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.

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To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
  • Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
  • Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.

The Assignment: (1 page)

Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:

  • Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
  • Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
  • Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
  • Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.

https://www.hhs.gov/regulations/index.html

Write a one sentence summary of the article’s main idea. Submit this document as your assignment.

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To improve your writing skills, first you have to identify areas that you need to work on in order to make yourself a better writer. Over the first two modules, you will work on a short writing sample that you will share with your course faculty member so that he or she can identify areas for development in your writing.

For this assignment:

Click the link that follows to download a list of six linked articles from the Online Library. Select and read one of the articles.

  • https://content.learntoday.info/Learn/G124fw_Summer_15/site/Media/Diagnostic_Writing_Sample_Articles_1.docx
  • In a Word document:
    • Type the article’s title and the name of the article’s author.
    • Write a one sentence summary of the article’s main idea.
    • Submit this document as your assignment.