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Choose a health care policy issue in your workplace or community related to cost, quality, or access. You may wish to explore the literature and health care policy websites to ascertain what is working and what might work in your workplace or community.

An analysis of the health care policy issue, making sure to address these specific points: describe the health care policy issue; provide and explain the statistics depicting the issue; and explain how this issue relates to health care costs, quality, and access.
When possible, provide examples from your professional experiences to demonstrate cost concerns in your particular field, or use personal anecdotes/stories to illustrate some of the problems that exist.

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The expert determines what drives health care costs. Examples of professional experiences to demonstrate cost concerns in your particular fields are determined.

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Choose a health care policy issue in your workplace or community related to cost, quality, or access. You may wish to explore the literature and health care policy websites to ascertain what is working and what might work in your workplace or community.

The healthcare policy issue that is chosen for this summary represents one of the most important issues that faces healthcare policy in the healthcare industry today. The issue of unhygienic practices by healthcare providers that lead to unnecessary injuries and deaths is a significant problem within the healthcare industry. The necessity to address this issue is a mandatory requirement involved with the ACA wherein the objective of the Obamacare legislation is to reduce unnecessary injuries and deaths among patients. Unfortunately, too many healthcare providers are adhering to the necessary hygienic practices that could reduce injury and deaths in patients. Therefore, the policy that is initiated to reform this problem could significantly reduce costs as it would prevent ...

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