The goal of assignments is for
you to provide answers demonstrating a comprehensive and critical understanding of core concepts from the chapter. Please provide thorough answers to the following questions/prompts. For an answer to be thorough you must discuss and define relevant concepts. Use of examples can help illuminate the point you want to make. None of these question can be appropriately answered with a few short sentences.
HCA 6013 Dynamics of Healthcare Markets
Module Eight
Assignment
The Healthcare Workforce
1) Describe three unique factors of healthcare labor markets.
2) Healthcare policy tries to optimize healthcare workforce. Identify and explain two distinct types of policy aimed at optimizing healthcare.
3) Find a scholarly, peer-reviewed article published 2022 or after that studied or discussed the impact that AI may have on the healthcare workforce. Describe the findings. Using concepts in the book, agree or disagree with the findings.
Bold concepts.
4) Based on the evidence presented in the chapter what are the cost and patient outcomes of inadequate supply of healthcare workforce. Name a way to mitigate it and share your opinion on why how its effectiveness might be limited.
HCA 6013 Dynamics of Healthcare Markets
Module Nine
Assignment
Equity and Redistribution
1) Compare and contrast 2 of the following three theories: Rawl’s maximin principle, Nozick’s entitlement theory, utilitarianism. Be sure to include each one’s implication for health policy, wealth, equitable access to healthcare, and governmental intervention in healthcare systems/markets.
2) Explain what factors the Affordable Care Act aimed to mitigate and why those are important to equity and justice in healthcare.
3) Which ethical allocation method for scarce healthcare resources do you find the most ethically defensible and practical approach for public health? Include efficiency and justice arguments in your answer.
4) A person’s health is a “key capability.” Critically evaluate how this perspective challenges the traditional microeconomic model. Comment on aggregate welfare in your answer.
5) Using concepts in the textbook, choose 2 healthcare provisions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Congressional Budget Office’s report. You can find OBBB provisions in the tables here
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48569. You can choose any 2 policies from Medicaid, PrivateHealth Insurance or Medicare.
Describe:
a. What/who the policy is intended to effect,
b. the mechanism being used to achieve it,
c. your opinion on the theory it fits best with,
d. and predict its impact to equity, efficiency and justice – and when that impact(s) will be observable.
