Week 4 Journal: Reflections on Healthcare Policy

Reflections on Health-Care Policy

For your journal entry, you will explore aspects of your personal experience and/or beliefs regarding significant public policies and what you have learned in your readings.  For this journal assignment review the following resources:

1. Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us      healthy? (Links to an external site.)
2. Health      Reform Hits Main Street: The YouToons Explain the New Health Law. (Links      to an external site.)
3. Illustrating      Health Care Reform: How Health Insurance Coverage Will Work. (Links      to an external site.)

As you reflect on these resources, please address the following questions:

1. What      are the major current healthcare issues and policies in the United States      today?
2. What      is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – 2010?  How did      this policy change the health care system in the United States?
3. Describe      one strength and one weakness of the Patient Protection and Affordable      Care Act – 2010.
4. How      are you affected by healthcare policies in the United States? If you are      not affected, why not?
5. What      were your thoughts on the healthcare system in the United States prior to      this week’s readings?
6. How      has your perspective been either reinforced or changed now that you are      more informed?