Description
Week 6 Reading Assignments
Course Content
Discussion 6.1: Medicaid Expansion Debate
Directions
Use the required readings and the Status of State Action on the Medicaid Expansion Decision to answer these questions:
After reviewing this week’s content consider the following:
• Analyze how ACA Medicaid (Medicaid expansion) differs from other Medicaid programs.
• What problem(s) was the Medicare program originally intended to solve?
• Analyze the differences between Medicare and Medicaid.
• Why have financial considerations been important to the politics of policy.
• Analyze Medicare for all and how would it impact the current Medicare program.
For your post, we will have a debate:
• Take a side on the following topic: Is health care a right or a privilege? If your last name starts with A–K, take the position of it as a right, L–Z take the position of it as a privilege.
• Support your position based on current literature and content from this week.
Post your original response by the end of Day 3. Then, by the end of Day 6, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
Week 6: Medicare and Medicaid
Required Readings
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals
Chapter 11: Medicare: Protector to Innovator
Chapter 12: Medicaid and the Financing of Care for Vulnerable Populations: A Story of Misconceptions
Brill, S. (2013, April 4). Bitter pill: Why medical bills are killing us. Time.
Gale, A. H. (2015). Fifty years of Medicare: The good and the bad. Missouri Medicine, 112(4), 252–257.