Rubric
Healthcare
Economics: Final Project Guidelines and Grading Guide
Overview
The final project
for this course is the creation of a mock open comment to a significant
federal legislation that has affected healthcare or the healthcare industry.
An open comment is an informed opinion written in the form of a letter to
counsel authors of legislation on the perceived benefits and consequences of
the opinion. You will select a key issue affecting health and healthcare in the
United States from the topic areas as defined by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and identify a corresponding health policy addressing that issue.
This mock open comment will examine the macroeconomic forces at play in a
recent healthcare policy and determine whether any forces were inadequately
considered. The mock open comment should be nonpartisan, stakeholder agnostic,
and supported by research from reputed sources. The final submission will
correspond to the Purdue University method of organization for white papers as
indicated on its Online Writing Lab (OWL).
The final project
will be broken down into three separate components: submission of an executive
summary with references, the open comment paper, and a five-minute 'TED
Talk-style' presentation.
The project is
divided into three milestones, which will be submitted at various points
throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final
submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Two, Four, and
Five. The final project will be submitted in Module Seven.
In this
assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
•
Assess
the strategic and operational use of economic principles and indicators to
manipulate the healthcare experience for patients and their caregivers
•
Articulate
the effects of contemporary policies and regulations on the American healthcare
system and the healthcare consumer
•
Describe
the impact of prominent financial models in healthcare on the strategies of
market players
•
Distinguish
the influence of socioeconomic factors of American society on the healthcare
delivery system and community health
•
Analyze
ways that behavioral models of demanders, suppliers, and other healthcare
agencies influence economic determinates and barriers to change in the American
healthcare system
Prompt
After choosing a
topic area from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s topic areas, you will create a comment letter addressing the abilities
and inabilities of a legislative action to impact the economic forces impacting
the issue. The policy you select to evaluate should affect a health topic in
which you have an interest or one that affects a population of significance to
you. While your submission will center on a pivotal piece of legislation, this
is not a policy paper. Focus on how the legislation would affect the key health
issue and the macroeconomic forces that produced the issue.
The TED Talk-style
portion of your project should start by making your audience care, using a
relatable example or an intriguing idea explained clearly and with conviction.
Describe your evidence and how and why your idea could be implemented, and
conclude by addressing how your idea could affect your audience if they were to
accept it. Further guidelines to preparing a good TED Talk are provided at the
following link: TEDx Speaker Guide.
Your letter, as well
as the corresponding 'TED-style' video presentation, will address the following
critical elements:
1.
Outline
of Open Comment Letter with References
a.
Based
on the chosen key issue affecting health status, select a significant piece
of federal legislation to analyze and explain how the federal legislation
will address the issue.
b.
Elaborate
on the macroeconomic market forces at play that necessitated the piece
of legislation.
c.
Define
the intended consequences of the legislation (i.e. to protect a
vulnerable population, affect the value proposition of the health system, etc.)
d.
Conduct
a review of current resources (articles, websites, interviews, etc.)
related to the tenets of the legislation.
e.
Select
the resources that most appropriately and concisely examine the
legislation's macro-and microeconomic impact and cite them according to APA
citation guidelines.
f.
Assess
the point of view demonstrated in each resource and analyze the
microeconomic mechanisms that will influence the behaviors of providers,
insurers, vendors, and the population as a whole.
2.
Open
Comment Letter
a.
Describe
how the intended consequences of the legislation will positively and/or
negatively impact the key health issue that it is tasked to affect once
applied to a realistic environment.
b.
Differentiate
between the manner in which the major tenets of the legislation would be
interpreted by a health economist, health practitioner, and/or consumer
of healthcare services.
c.
Summarize
the logical interpretations
of the legislation in a document with a member of Congress as the proposed
audience.
d.
Hypothesize
the outcomes of the legislation in a document with a member of Congress
as the proposed audience.
e.
Decide
whether the key health issue is being served by creating or subduing
supply, demand, or cost of healthcare services and which stakeholder group
(providers, consumers, or payors) bears the primary responsibility for its
implementation.
f.
Discern
to what extent the legislation will impact the reimbursement and/or
financial health of providers operating as for-profit, nonprofit, military,
or government-sponsored care financing models.
g.
Propose
changes to the legislation
that could be adopted to further affect socioeconomic determinants of health
such as poverty, education, and diversity.
h.
Propose
what tactics could be implemented to ensure that the initial intent of
the legislation could be safeguarded against perversion by macroeconomic
forces and agents looking to exploit those forces to their advantage.
3.
TED
Talk
a.
Passionately
deliver your exposition to an audience of thought leaders, legislators,
and stakeholders via a recorded web conference.
b.
Create
an innovative introduction that makes the audience care, using a
relatable example or an intriguing idea.
c.
Create
the body of the talk that will describe your evidence and how and why
your suggestions could be implemented.
d.
Create
the closing of the talk that will address how your idea could affect
your audience if they were to accept what has been presented.
Milestones
Milestone One: Outline of Open Comment Letter with
References
Submit an outline
of your open comment letter with references. Choose a topic area from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s topic
areas and
then search journals, interview clips, and websites to find a piece of
legislation that addresses the issue. Compile your sources and create a
bibliography using APA style for listing citations. Digest the content of the
legislation and complete a preliminary macroeconomic analysis of its intended
impact. Provide an outline, which will serve as an overview of everything you
learned from your research of the health issue and your preliminary
recommendations for the legislation. This deliverable should be no more than
two pages in length. It should help the reader understand why you chose the
health issue at hand, how the legislation will affect it, what economic
concepts and factors are at play, and what the implications of your findings
are. This milestone is graded with the Milestone One Rubric.
Milestone Two: Open Comment Letter Draft
Submit a first
draft of your open comment letter. An open comment is an informed opinion
written in the form of a letter to counsel authors of legislation on the
perceived benefits and consequences of the opinion. It should include
background on the key health issue and your assumption of the risks inferred by
the legislative action (i.e., unintended consequences, public reaction,
loopholes, etc.). The economic analysis should be more complete than that of
your executive summary, taking into account the nature of the U.S. healthcare
system, socioeconomic factors, behavioral models of stakeholders that shape
interpretations and outcomes. The document should not be based solely on
emotion, though it should not be divorced of sentiment as it needs to rouse the
proper energy needed to effect change. The goal of the document is to convince
the reader that your suggestions for inclusion, exclusion, and adaptations to
the legislation should be included in the final version of the action. It
should be no more than five pages, not including references and supporting
appendices. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.
Milestone Three: TED Talking Points
Submit a bulleted
list of the points you will speak to in your TED-style presentation. A TED
Talk is a short audiovisual presentation that espouses new ideas supported by
concrete evidence, delivered by engaging, charismatic speakers. Your
presentation should clarify the major points of the key health issue and the
legislation, but moreover it should deeply explore why this topic is important
to you and how the intended results will impact you or the population you hold
dear. The talk should be no more than five minutes. This milestone is graded
with the Milestone Three Rubric.
Final Project
Submission: Open Comment
Letter and TED talk
Submit the final
version of your open comment letter along with the final version of your TED
talk. This submission is graded with the Final Project Rubric (embedded
below).
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