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Discuss the formation and implementation of US health care policy at the government level with the policy cycle. Please include references at part of the solution.

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A policy goes through a cycle when enacted. There are two ways to look at policy cycle. Policy cycle usually starts with the agenda, formulation, implementation, budget and evaluation (http://profwork.org/pp/study/cycle.html). This is the steps in each the cycle of each of any public policy. In looking at healthcare policy in the United States (US) healthcare policy, one can start with as far with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid and how public insurance began a cycle that evolved to private insurance that eventually led to prices that an uninsured person could never pay. Gone was the small personal physician that saw a ...

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