Question: Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: You will submit an outline of your open comment letter with references. Choose a topic area from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation''s topic areas and then search journals, interview clips, and websites to find a piece of legislation that addresses the issue. Some suggestions for topics

Health Care Costs

Compile your sources and create a bibliography using APA style for listing citations. Digest the content of the legislation and complete a preliminary macroeconomic analysis of its intended impact. Provide an outline, which will serve as an overview of everything you learned from your research of the health issue and your preliminary recommendations for the legislation.

This deliverable should be no more than two pages in length. It should help the reader understand why you chose the health issue at hand, how the legislation will affect it, what economic concepts and factors are at play, and what the implications of your findings are.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Outline of Open Comment Letter with References

a. Based on the chosen key issue affecting health status, select a significant piece of federal legislation to analyze and explain how the federal legislation will address the issue.

b. Elaborate on the macroeconomic market forces at play that necessitated the piece of legislation.

c. Define the intended consequences of the legislation (i.e., to protect a vulnerable population, affect the value proposition of the health system, etc.)

d. Conduct a review of current resources (articles, websites, interviews, etc.) related to the tenets of the legislation.

e. Select the resources that most appropriately and concisely examine the legislation''s macro- and microeconomic impact and cite them according to APA citation guidelines.

f. Assess the point of view demonstrated in each resource and analyze the microeconomic mechanisms that will influence the behaviors of providers, insurers, vendors, and the population as a whole.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a one- to two-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

HCM 320: Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: You will submit an outline of your open comment letter with references. Choose a topic area from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation''s topic areas and then search journals, interview clips, and websites to find a piece of legislation that addresses the issue. Some suggestions for topics include:

Health Care Costs

Compile your sources and create a bibliography using APA style for listing citations. Digest the content of the legislation and complete a preliminary macroeconomic analysis of its intended impact.

Provide an outline, which will serve as an overview of everything you learned from your research of the health issue and your preliminary recommendations for the legislation.

This deliverable should be no more than two pages in length. It should help the reader understand why you chose the health issue at hand, how the legislation will affect it, what economic concepts and factors are at play, and what the implications of your findings are.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Outline of Open Comment Letter with References

a. Based on the chosen key issue affecting health status, select a significant piece of federal legislation to analyze and explain how the federal legislation will address the issue.

b. Elaborate on the macroeconomic market forces at play that necessitated the piece of legislation.

c. Define the intended consequences of the legislation (i.e., to protect a vulnerable population, affect the value proposition of the health system, etc.)

d. Conduct a review of current resources (articles, websites, interviews, etc.) related to the tenets of the legislation.

e. Select the resources that most appropriately and concisely examine the legislation''s macro- and microeconomic impact and cite them according to APA citation guidelines.

f. Assess the point of view demonstrated in each resource and analyze the microeconomic mechanisms that will influence the behaviors of providers, insurers, vendors, and the population as a whole.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a one- to two-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.