What is the process of health policy making in the United States? 

What are the main features of health policy? 

Why do these features characterize US health policy?

What impact does the health policy making have on the role of a health care administrator's day-to-day operations and planning? What, if anything, be done to "stay ahead of the game"?

 

What is the process of health policy making in the United States? 

(1) Examining the public interest in health. Does it aim to fulfill a persuasive health purpose in the current policy? The policymaker should identify the health purpose(s) of the policy explicitly and narrowly.

(2) Analyzing the overall policy effectiveness. Is the strategy proposed likely to be successful in achieving the specified objective(s)? This phase involves an examination of whether the policy is an acceptable intervention to meet the specified targets and whether it is fairly likely to lead to successful action.

(3) Determining whether the policy is well-targeted. Is the new legislation narrowly centered on the issue of health? A decision-maker should decide if, or if it is over- or under-inclusive a program is specifically designed to solve the particular health issue.

(4) To recognizing the pressures of civil rights. This move includes an investigation into the nature, invasiveness, extent, and length of abuses of human rights. Will the right to equality, autonomy, anonymity or nondiscrimination conflict with the policy?

(5) Analyzing whether the least stringent option is a strategy. A policymaker should consider whether the health target may still be accomplished, or stronger, with less human rights constraints. This move aims to ensure that a policymaker explores solutions that can best accommodate the needs of government and individuals.

What are the main features of health policy? 

The following are the main policy principles and characteristics are: 1) professionalism, honesty and ethics, 2) equality, 3) affordability, 4) universality, 5) patient-centered and standard of treatment, 6) transparency, 7) equitable alliances, 8) pluralism, 9) decentralization, and 10) dynamism and adaptability. 

Why do these features characterize US health policy?

Several characteristics, including government as a subsidiary of the private sector, describe US health policy; fractured, gradual, and fragmentary reform; pluralistic (interest group) politics; the state's decentralized role; and the effect of presidential leadership. To affect the creation and evolution of health policy, these characteristics also function or interact.

What impact does the health policy making have on the role of a health care administrator's day-to-day operations and planning? What, if anything, be done to "stay ahead of the game"?

Healthcare policy is of critical significance as it lays out a general action plan used by health care administrators to direct the expected goals and is a basic guideline for decision-making.

The aim of healthcare policies and procedures is to convey the organization's intended results to workers. They help health care administrators identify their positions and obligations within the group. Specifically, legislation should provide the framework for the implementation of reliable and cost-effective quality services in the healthcare system.

Health care policies aim to create powerful solutions to help health care administrators handle policies and other records in order to increase the productivity and performance of a healthcare facility, as well as to ensure that no laws are broken.

Policies must be developed and disseminated to workers on a new legislation or policy, new or revised. This is to ensure that not only are proper policies developed, but that they are easily communicated to employees by the healthcare administrators.

A healthcare administrator must also maintain a knowledge of medical history to ensuring that the medical records of patients are kept correctly. Policies are often developed to be in accordance with the organization and the community's actual needs.