HOW WOULD YOU UTILIZED THE LEARNED EXPERIENCES FROM THIS CLASS TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON A HEALTH CARE POLICY OR WICKED PROBLEM IN HEALTH?
A large number of Americans have access to health care today. While the health policy is largely similar across the country, the implementation process, quality, and cost vary with each state. It is the responsibility of the state government to fine-tune the health legislations in a way that benefits its citizens.
The healthcare reforms signed in 2008 by Governor Pawlenty is an example of a state attempting to reform the healthcare sector. The policy was meant to significantly reduce the number of obese people in the state of Minnesota as well as reduce the number of tobacco users. An estimated 8,700 more people were to have access to MinnesotaCare coverage by 2011(Aspinall, 2008).
As is the case with many states, politics and the political climate has a role to play in the making of policies. As a largely Democrat state, Minnesota can be perceived as riding the wave of change brought about by the election of president Obama. One of the hallmarks of the Obama administration was the Affordable Care Act, and the state of Minnesota was looking to implement changes of its own in order to have more people covered in their state.
By signing the pieces of legislations into law, the governor put into consideration the recommendations of the Minnesota Department Of Health as well as the governor’s own Transformation Task Force. In fact, MDH was required to develop and implement standards of certification for healthcare homes by July 1, 2009 (Aspinall, 2008). There is no indication however that the professional nursing organizations been involved in this policy issue.
Among some of the recommendations in the pieces of legislation, it required a workgroup to work on developing recommendations to regulate and educate oral health practitioners (Aspinall, 2008). Nurses have great potential to contribute in developing of such policies. The state of Minnesota and other states could be better working with the various nursing professionals and engage them in health policy activities as their input will result in better legislation that is all inclusive.
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