Explain the government’s impact on the cost of health care.
Write 1,000- to 1,200 about the impact of regulation and policy.
Choose a current health policy from your state that is being considered as a legislative act.
- Explain the pros and cons of the proposed health policy from the perspective of the patient, family, or community and its role in reducing the cost for health care insurers.
- Explain the government’s impact on the cost of health care.
- Explain what regulatory authority will implement or enforce this health care policy.
- Describe the differences between federal, state, and local health care regulatory responsibilities in the chosen health policy.
Include three scholarly sources including your textbook.
Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
Assignment: Developing Organizational Policies and Practices
The Assignment (1-2 pages):
Developing Organizational Policies and Practices
Add a section to the 2-3 page paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following in 1-2 pages:
· Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
· Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor.
· Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics.
· Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples.
· Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations.
· Due to the nature of this assignment, your instructor may require more than 7 days to provide you with quality feedback.
create a brief section analyzing how your plan is consistent with Christian teachings as grounded in the Holy Bible.
This Conflict Resolution: Part 3 – Action Plan Assignment will eventually be the last section of the Conflict Resolution: Part 4 – Proposal Assignment. This section will consist of you providing a detailed plan for addressing the conflict identified in the previous assignments.
Your intervention plan that is selected should be congruent with the theoretical conceptualization that you outlined in your Conflict Resolution: Part 2 – Literature Review and Conceptualization Assignment. The Conflict Resolution: Part 3 – Action Plan Assignment needs to provide an understanding for how the suggested intervention would cause change in the underlying conflict dynamic. The effect of your action plan on all parties should be thoroughly analyzed.
Be sure you justify the need for criminal justice organization alternative resolution techniques. Additionally, for the first time in this series of papers, you should address your conflict resolution plan through the lens of a Christian Worldview. In other words, create a brief section analyzing how your plan is consistent with Christian teachings as grounded in the Holy Bible. As with previous papers, the action plan should be grounded in the conflict resolution research literature.
INSTRUCTIONS
Items to include are outlined as follows: Length of assignment is 6 to 8 pages
o Excluding title page, abstract, reference section, or any extra material
Format of assignment is the current version of APA
Number of citations – Minimum guideline is 4 – 8 peer reviewed academic
journal articles and at least one Holy Bible reference.
What purpose do theories in criminology serve?
Each discussion should be 300 words or more for original posts
APA in-text (Links to an external site.) citations and references are required for any external and textbook material provided. Excessive quotations (more quotes than your own words) will not award points.
Discussion Questions (Choose one):
- What purpose do theories in criminology serve? Provide and discuss an example(s) where criminal theories have pushed the envelope further in the field of Criminology.
- Compare and contrast theories from the Classical School and the Positive School. Which theories/Schools of Thought are more prevalent/in use today?
Discuss the case for intermediate sanctions and the impediments to effective intermediate sanctions.
Discussing the pros and cons of intermediate sanctions
Review the following document (Executive Summary) https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165043.pdf (Links to an external site.) then respond to the following questions:
Discuss the case for intermediate sanctions and the impediments to effective intermediate sanctions.
Are there some crimes that should not be eligible for intermediate sanctions?
Do rehabilitative employment programs in prisons work?
Do rehabilitative employment programs in prisons work?
Review the following article: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1985/04/rpt1full.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Then discuss how employment programs affect the behavior of offenders and former offenders.
Are you in favor of these rehabilitative efforts made at correctional institutions?
Do you think these programs work?
how can you best manage VLANs so they function efficiently and securely?
VLANs offer significant flexibility in the design and management of network traffic. From segmenting devices attached to the same switch to blending traffic from different buildings, VLANs allow network admins to design logical traffic flows that are not bound to the layout of physical devices. With great power comes great responsibility, however, as many wise sages have advised throughout the centuries. The question that emerges is, how can you best manage VLANs so they function efficiently and securely? Do some research online for VLAN best practices and VLAN security, and then respond to the following question:
List some tips for VLAN configuration that increase security and overall network performance.
1.We need 200 words of Discussion Forum for the above AND References.
2.We need 2 sets of 100 words of each comments. Total 400 words Please check plagiarism in Turnitin tool.
Based on your knowledge and experience do you think this study’s findings are still valid? Why or Why not?
Assigned Reading: Thistlewaite and Wooldredge, Part 1, Chapter 4, Problem-Oriented Policing: Can Police Fix the underlying problems responsible for crime? pp. 78-87
After reading the article answer the following questions in a discussion posting:
You must also comment on two of your classmate’s postings by the end of day 7.
1. Do you think the methodology used to complete this study was valid?
2. What limitations do you see, if any, in the way the study was conducted?
3. Based on your knowledge and experience do you think this study’s findings are still valid? Why or Why not?
Give specific examples how your past experiences and academic achievements have led you to choose social work as a profession.
Social Work is a profession that addresses the needs of vulnerable populations. We are bound by a professional Code of Ethics (see MSW bulletin) that mandates our professional behavior. Students in our graduate program are expected to act in a manner that reflects these standards. We wish to evaluate as accurately as possible your qualifications for a professional education in social work and the appropriateness of the program for your educational needs and goals. Therefore, it is important that you respond to EACH of the following questions. Please type your replies, double-spaced, in three to six pages (total length.) This is one of the most important. It is your opportunity to share with the information about yourself that we will use to evaluate and the profession. Before submission, please make sure to highlight significant work or volunteer experience that will demonstrate your commitment to the field of social work. In addition, please make sure that your Statement of Purpose is carefully edited as we do consider spelling, grammar and writing style. Remember, each of these questions is scored individually, along with your writing skills, so please answer to the best of your ability. **Please write and number each prompt and then write your answer.
1. Give specific examples how your past experiences and academic achievements have led you to choose social work as a profession.
2. The social work profession is guided by the NASW code of ethics: https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English
This code includes working with diverse populations and clients/communities whose values and beliefs may be different from yours. Discuss how your personal values and beliefs are or are not compatible with this professional standard. How will you reconcile any conflicts between your personal values and the requirement of the profession?
3. Describe an ethical dilemma ( Ethical dilemmas, also known as a moral dilemma, are situations in which there is a choice to be made between two options, neither of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable fashion) that you have faced in your life. How was it resolved?
What is your reaction to the problem of political spending?
Should Directors Shine Light on Dark Money?
Recent election cycles have brought new challenges for corporations and their boards of directors. For example, in the 2016 presidential election campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a prescription drug plan to lower prescription prices following the Turing Pharmaceutical price gouging scandal. Yet ironically, the pharmaceutical industry was one of the most generous industry donators to her campaign, as well as those of the other candidates. In fact, the health industry overall (including health professionals, hospitals, HMOs, and pharmaceutical companies) donated over $10 million to the presidential candidates by spring of 2016. In essence, the pharmaceutical companies and health-care professionals spent money to promote policies that went against their own financial interests.
This happened in congressional elections as well. In 2010, the pharmaceutical industry’s trade group, PhRMA, donated funds to nonprofit groups that used those funds to help elect 23 representatives who subsequently voted to limit access to contraceptives. Some of those funds came from firms like Pfizer, Bayer, and Merck—all manufacturers of contraceptives.
Political spending is also an issue with individual companies. Target Corporation, a company that had positioned itself as an LGBT-friendly corporation, found itself the target of angry employees and customers when they learned about Target’s political spending. Target, a sponsor of the annual Twin Cities Gay Pride Festival, donated money to a business group that supported an antigay rights candidate for Minnesota governor. Angry employees and consumers conducted protests outside Target stores and threatened a boycott.
These examples show how political spending can have dramatic consequences for corporations. Politicians take positions on a range of policies and so the same politician may hold some positions that support and other positions that damage a corporation’s best interests. This problem was exacerbated when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision changed the political spending landscape for corporations. Before that decision, political spending was constrained to political action committees (PACs), and PAC political activity had to be disclosed to the FEC (Federal Election Commission). Now firms can make unlimited contributions directly to candidates or indirectly to 501c4 nonprofits and trade associations, who can then hide both the donors who provided the money and the way the money was spent. Firms are now freer to become politically involved but, as Target and the pharmaceutical companies found out, that freedom comes with risk. Shareholders and other stakeholders are asking firms to be transparent in their political spending. They want to judge those expenditures for themselves to avoid agency problems and other conflicts of interest.
Ira M. Millstein, founder of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School, proposes a new policy for boards of directors to follow in this new landscape. He suggests that
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companies should require trade associations of which they are members to report to them on their political spending,
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companies should require trade associations of which they are members to disclose the donors who provide the money for their political spending, and
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Questions for Discussion
1. What is your reaction to the problem of political spending? What would you do if you were the CEO of a pharmaceutical company? Would you still belong to PhRMA? Would your membership have any conditions attached?
2. What is your reaction to the Target situation? How would you handle it if you were the CEO?
3. Do you agree with Ira Millstein? Should companies require trade associations to disclose this information before they join? Should companies then disclose the information they receive? If a trade association refuses to provide that information, should the company refuse to join?
