What have Congress and the FDA done in response?

MPPA 582-01, Healthcare Policy, Winter 2017_rev 30Dec2016 mg Page 13increased dramatically in the last decade, nearly tripling. In especially short supply is a generic version of an important cancer drug. What is the threat to public health? What’s wrong with the drug production and distribution system? What have Congress and the FDA done in response? How can private enterprise and government agencies address this problem?15. Health Care and the poor: Community health providers who treat the poor find they cycle in and out of care due to periods of homelessness, jail time, and other barriers, disrupting medical regimens. What are implications for individual health and public health? What provisions of the ACA can help address these issues?Proposing an Alternative TopicIf you prefer to work on a topic not listed above, you must submit a proposal (typewritten, single-spaced, due no later than our first class meeting) addressing each of these points and arguing why your topic is relevant to health care policymaking as well as recent health care reforms:(1) state your key policy question (examples provided above);(2) state what level of governance is involved at which a policy decision should be made(local, state, federal; specific agency), and provide the rationale for why that governmentalentity is critical for this issue;(3) identify 2 key positions on this issue, including how each identifies the problem and whateach proposes for a solution; for example, using a topic above, DTC advertising of pharmaceuticals is argued by some as improving patient choice and by others as inventing demand – what is each side identifying as a problem, and what do they suggest be done about it?(4) outline sources of evidence each position puts forth in its claims; and,(5) finally, looking at the topic areas for each week of this course, consider which you expect tobe most relevant for your topic and why; for example, DTC advertising of prescription drugs is relevant to the study of the patient empowerment movement as well as the study of medical industries and the role of profit-making in health-related fields.

Provide a 2 page paper, with citations, as to the current ideological state of the leading candidates for president in France, thus far.

France is having an election this May for President and there has been much posturing by the candidates. Provide a 2 page paper, with citations, as to the current ideological state of the leading candidates for president in France, thus far.2 Page paper- 3 citations minimum

What do you think is the central-most conflict in this play?

Complete 1: Read the following two plays. Then, select one of the plays to complete a map of this play. Read the two plays listed below:° Zora Neal Hurston “Poker!” ° Arthur Miller “Death of a Salesman”In 1-2 paragraphs, describe each of the following parts of the play. Be sure to use specific details in your response along with quotes to support your ideas. Also, be sure to properly cite (using page numbers).° exposition° rising action° climax° falling action° conclusion (resolution)Complete 2:Answer the following questions about the play:° What do you think is the central-most conflict in this play?° Pick a character and describe that character’s movement. How is the playwright staging him or her?° Analyze the cultural and historical context of this play. What is this play’s reality? In what ways does this play express its context? What was its significance when it was first performed, and what is its significance now?For each of the above, make sure you craft a detailed, well-supported 1-2 paragraph response.

Analyze the concept of the state of nature by first reviewing the material on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

Analyze the concept of the state of nature by first reviewing the material on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Consider their discussion of life in the state of nature. Do you find their arguments convincing? Construct your answer into the following 2 parts:Part 1: This section must be at least 1 paragraph with a minimum of 150 words. Begin your thread with a discussion about which author (Hobbes or Locke) gave a more convincing picture of life without government in the state of nature. Your thread must demonstrate that you understand the meaning of this concept. Explain why you find 1 author more persuasive than the other. Cite specific points. The main point is not which author you choose but instead how well you support your position. Your thread should leave no doubt that you read both authors carefully. Be sure to cite specific page references from your assigned textbook readings.Part 2: This section must be at least 1 paragraph with a minimum of 150 words. Explore the biblical basis for the state of nature argument. Is the concept of the state of nature compatible with Christianity? Why or why not? Cite specific points. This must include references to Scripture passages as well as references to the details of Hobbes and Locke. The main consideration is how well you support your argument with logic as well as specific references to the authors and to Scripture. Be sure to cite specific page references from your assigned textbook readings.

How would you rank these in relative impor-tance? Support your answer.

Case 10.1THE STAR AWARDAs director of the excise audit bureau in the West Dakota Department of Taxation, you have to decide who on your staff should receive a new performance bonus. The legislature created the bonus back in February, and the division of personnel has now issued all the regulations. You have the forms and instructions, and by the end of the month, you have to send your choices to the taxation commissioner, who will forward them to personnel.Two things motivated the West Dakota legislature to create the performance bonus. First, key legislators had concluded that state employees were simply not working hard enough. Legislators constantly receive complaints about the lackadaisical attitude of state workers, and they concluded that the fixed civil service pay scale was not attracting new talent or motivating existing employees.Second, West Dakota is running a budget surplus for the second straight year. Naturally, the legislature has cut taxes—twice. But despite those efforts, the budget continues to show a surplus. Consequently, the Speaker of the House decided to use a portion of it to reward the “stars” of state government.The new Star Award will give the top20 percent of employees in each unit a $5000 bonus, to be paid in 12 monthly installments during the coming fiscal year. The bonus is sup-posed to go to those employees who are not only “outstanding” but also genuine stars. The head of each unit must determine the criteria for choosing who the stars are. To ensure that the bonus can be included in the July payroll checks, each manager must submit a “star list” by June 20.Your audit bureau has 15 employees with a wide range of responsibilities and job classifications—everything from clerk I to senior auditor. And, predictably, they also possess a range of talent, enthusiasm, and effectiveness. Here are the most obvious candidates for the performance bonus:• Larry Beck, senior auditor. As a 23-year employee, Beck is clearly your most knowledge-able and effective auditor. Everyone goes to him for advice. Everyone looks up to him. But in two years, Larry will be eligible to receive his pension, and he knows it. He can still be a top performer—when he wants to. Recently, however, he has lost a little drive, although most people in the Department of Taxation still think of him as your unit’s star.• Jim Beatty, auditor III. With an advanced degree in accounting, Jim draws your unit’s tough assignments. He understands the subtle-ties of the excise tax and thus works with both the department’s legal counsel and the attorney general’s office explaining the intricacies of each case and helping to formulate strategy. He can, however, be condescending toward his less knowledgeable colleagues, few of whom understand the complexity of his work.• Rachel Gonzalez, auditor I. Straight out of law school with a verve for public service, Rachel is a real go-getter. In fact, she has struck gold several times, having gone over the books of numerous firms in such detail that she found mistakes most other auditors would have missed. Unfortunately, she also discovered some “errors” at a firm owned by the House Speaker’s cousin. The firm refused to acknowledge any error, and eventually the department’s legal counsel decided to settle out of court. The firm paid the taxes that Rachel claimed it owed (plus interest) but admitted no guilt for any tax violations and paid no fine. Rachel would be a gutsy choice on your part, but it might create a few problems politically when the Speaker hears about it.• Martha Rutledge, administrative assistant II. With 35 years in the Department of Taxation, Martha knows everybody and everything. She runs your life. In fact, she really runs the day-to-day business of the audit unit, permit-ting you to concentrate on long-term, stratey allowed without express authoring concerns. You trust both her skills and her judgment; she really functions as your deputy director. Of course, she is still paid as an administrative assistant. It’s hard to imagine Martha slacking off in her duties under any circumstances; it’s also unlikely that an award would make her any more diligent. She’ll be doing her same conscientious job right up until the day she leaves.• Samantha Black, clerk I. Two years ago, straight out of high school, Samantha passed the civil service exam with flying colors. You immediately hired her, and she quickly became a real team member—both competent and cheery. Every auditor wants to give his or her clerical work to Samantha. Moreover, others in the department have heard of her talents, and she has already turned down several offers as a clerk II. You, however, don’t have a clerk II position into which you can promote her.The rest of your employees are quite proficient and professional. They’re smart; to do their work, they have to be. Like any other manager in the taxation department, or in state government for that matter, you have a couple of people whom you wouldn’t mind replacing. Still, you have a talented team that does its job without requiring much attention (except when you step on some politically sensitive toes). Your people are over-worked and underappreciated. If the bonus is for performance, 90 percent of them deserve one. But you have only three to give. 1. Before turning to specifics of the case, consider the following more general question. Most would agree the six factors in the following list are important in determining whom to hire and promote: • Capacity• Experience• Integrity• Knowledge• Motivation• Understanding How would you rank these in relative impor-tance? Support your answer.2. Who in this case would you pick?

Reflection paper – what is a successful presidency?

You are required to write a 5–7-page paper answering the question, “What is a successful president?” You must include an introduction, body, and conclusion, along with a title page and reference list. (Note that the page requirement does not include the title page, reference page, and any appendices).You must discuss your answer in a public policy context,1. Note the importance of the question, and concisely state an answer in your introduction.2. Explain, clarify, elaborate, support, and generally develop your answer with facts, reasoning, and material drawn principally from peer-reviewed articles.3. Display your knowledge of the purpose of government and the presidency, the president’s roles, and biblical and philosophical standards while distinguishing the president from a demagogue.*4. Use subheadings throughout this paper.5. Conclude by reviewing the main point and personal relevance.6. You must compose this essay according to current Turabian footnote format. Use double spacing.7. Use a minimum of 5 sources from books, articles, web pages, or videos), avoid long quotations, and mere opinion will not suffice. AVOID COPYING AND PASTING FROM SOURCES/CHECK YOUR PAPER FOR PLAGIARISM IN TURNIT IN!Helpful article*Neumann, Sigmund. 1938. “The rule of the Demagogue.” American Sociological Review 3, no. 4 (Aug.): 487–498.

Analyze how people, information, and information technology help the company remain competitive in their industry.

Evaluate Lennar from the construction industry which is a publicly held company. Conduct research on the organization using the internet, the CSU-Global Library, and other credible sources. Your analysis of that organization needs to include the following: 1.Analyze how people, information, and information technology help the company remain competitive in their industry. 2.Analyze Porter’s Five Forces Model in relation to competition within the industry of that corporation. 3.Evaluate how supply chain management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, and customer relationship management systems are currently used, or could be used, within the organization. 4.Evaluate how a database management system and a data warehouse are currently used, or could be used, within the organization. 5.Analyze how the five agent?based technologies are currently used, or could be used, within the organization. 6.Evaluate which of the nine major e?commerce business models are currently used, or could be used, within the organization, and synthesize how these could work together to create value within the organization. 7.Analyze how the organization could benefit from using the systems development life cycle (SDLC), and what type of projects within the organization could benefit from this process. 8.Evaluate the phases of business continuity planning as they relate to the organization. 9.Analyze how the organization could use emerging trends such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cell phones, and RFID to remain competitive in the future. 10.Evaluate measures that the organization takes, or could take, to ensure information is protected and free from security vulnerabilities.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation of no more than ten slides and provide guidance on who will be responsible (the cloud provider or your organization) for various security controls.

For this assignment’s scenario your management is considering deploying several VMs for the next project to the cloud in an IaaS service model to replace your current on-prem data center. They have asked you how hosting the workload in the cloud will change responsibility for security controls. Develop a PowerPoint presentation of no more than ten slides and provide guidance on who will be responsible (the cloud provider or your organization) for various security controls. Give specific examples using the VM you deployed in the previous module as a guide. Consider patching, intrusion response, software updates, network access, security monitoring, system redundancy, and physical security.

What you would do to help get this bill passed if you were representing consumer groups.

In most neighborhoods, especially low-income neighborhoods, you don’t have to look far to see signs advertising “payday loans” and “title loans.” In my old neighborhood, Spring Branch, it seems like there are two or three per block the entire length of Long Point.Consumer groups hate these places, accusing them of preying on poor people. A United Way spokesman noted examples in the Houston Chronicle, including a “$480 payday loan that soon saw a family paying $186 in interest and fees every two weeks; a $300 loan on which a borrower, three months later, owed $700.”On the other hand, borrowers who use payday and title loans often have poor credit histories, or no credit history at all, and may have few options. For some consumers, a high-interest payday loan on the day rent is due may be a better and cheaper alternative than getting evicted.A large coalition of churches and consumer groups, the Texas Fair Lending Alliance (Links to an external site.), has pushed the Texas Legislature and city government throughout the state to crack down on what they see as predatory lending practices. The Consumer Service Alliance of Texas (Links to an external site.) represents payday and title lending companies.Last year, Senator Royce West (D-Dallas) filed S.B. 121 (Links to an external site.), which would have imposed state-wide restrictions on payday lending.Your assignment, write a 2 – 5 page essay (college-level, double-spaced, etc.) explaining:1. What you would do to help get this bill passed if you were representing consumer groups.2. What you would do to change or defeat this bill if you were representing payday and title lenders.3. Finally, how you would respond to these groups, their arguments and activities if you were a state legislator.Remember, the assignment is about interest groups. Don’t focus on what a ripoff you think payday loans are, or on how consumers ought to be free to make their own choices and how government isn’t supposed to be everybody’s mom. Focus on how you would manage the issue on behalf of each of the two interest groups.Submit in Word. Cite your sources.Additional ResourcesThe Texas Tribune covered the legislature’s efforts on this issue: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/04/29/lawmakers-lend-ear-concerns-about-payday-loans/ (Links to an external site.)The Dallas Morning News talked about it on their blog: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/lawmakers-face-long-odds-in-effort-to-crackdown-on-predatory-lending.html/ (Links to an external site.)Note: it says something about this issue that, as you do research for this essay, google “payday loans” at your own risk. Prepare to be deluged with ads trying to sell you one.

Describe the features of the current Texas constitution.

Students will write an essay, 500-750 words in length, on a topic selected from the list below. The purpose of the project is to give students an opportunity to discuss a key political science concept, and to show a basic understanding of academic research and reporting skills. The project consists of producing a 500-750 word essay on one of the provided topics (see below), as well as a works cited page for sources containing information used in the essay. The assignment is to be formatted according to the Modern Language Association (MLA) style. Students should research this style in order to properly format the assignment; papers not formatted properly will not receive a passing grade.Students should use Courier or New Courier 12 point as the paper’s font, double space the text, and create one inch margins on all four sides of the page. In addition, the assignment should be formatted according to MLA style for papers with no title page.Please choose from one of the following topics for your writing assignment:In Chapter 2, “The Constitutional Setting,” the authors describe the various state constitutions of Texas, with particular attention to the current state constitution. Complete the following: Describe the features of the current Texas constitution.Explain the influences that were critical in the structure and powers of the government created in the final document.Identify similarities and differences between the Texas Constitution and the U.S. constitution.Illustrate your points with specific examples from each of the legislative, executive, and judicial articles.In Chapter 2, “The Constitutional Setting,” the authors describe the amendment process for the Texas Constitution. Complete the following:Describe the rules for amending the Texas constitution.Discuss the attempts at constitutional reform during the 1970’s.Explain why constitutional reform was attempted and why it ultimately failed.Do you believe it is better to have a detailed constitution that requires frequent amendment as specific situations arise, or a constitution that has broad language providing government with flexibility to handle a diverse set of situations as they arise?In Chapter 11, “Local Government,” The authors explain the purposes and structures of local governments within the state of Texas. Complete the following:Identify the structure and role of local governments within the state of Texas.Explain the purpose and function of each type of local government.Some states have consolidated the county and city functions into a single governmental entity.Do you believe Texas would be better served by maintaining its several, distinct, types of local government, or by consolidating them into broader units of government that would handle the various functions within a single governmental entity?Submission Instructions:Complete your assignment using word-processing software such as MS Word, Open Office (download free software at http://www.openoffice.org/), or other per course requirements.Save your file as an .rtf file to ensure that it can be opened at any computer.Submit your assignment by selecting the writing assignment link in lesson 1, browsing to, and attaching your saved file from your desktop. Make sure to select SUBMIT. You may view your posting both on this page and under My Grades.

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