CH. 23 HEALTH POLICY AND POLITICS
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS FULLY
ELABORATED
State and federal governments play an increasingly important role in health care (EX: Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010) - answer ✔✔-What should you get involved in Politics?
Patient safety and quality; access to affordable health coverage and services; and costs, value, and
outcomes of services have become a major debate among policymakers - answer ✔✔-How is Nursing
practice affected by health policy
development?
Our numbers, education, scope of practice, and overall value to the health care system - answer ✔✔-
Why/How has the National attention on nurses/nursing practice has increased?
Set course of action taken by governments or health
care organizations to obtain desired health outcome - answer ✔✔-What Is Health Policy?
health care organizations such as hospitals and managed care
organizations - answer ✔✔-Who is Private health policy is made by?
Public health policy refers to local, state, and federal
legislation; regulation; and court rulings that govern the behavior of individuals and organizations in the
provision of health care services - answer ✔✔-What does public health policy refer to?
Cities or counties offer a variety of health care
services to meet the needs of their residents - answer ✔✔-Local Health Policy
, Examples include free or reduced-rate immunizations,
tobacco-free public buildings, safe drinking water,
enforcement of seat belt and child restraint laws, and
provision of an emergency medical system - answer ✔✔-What are examples of Local Health Policy?
Governs nursing through nurse practice act - answer ✔✔-How does the State Health Policy govern
nursing?
-Maintaining a safe meat supply through livestock inspections
• Ensuring safe food storage and preparation in restaurants
• Ensuring that health care facilities provide safe, quality care - answer ✔✔-What "invisible services"
does the State Health policy provide through regulatory activities?
• Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program
(SCHIP), which are partly funded by federal funds
• Other indigent care programs, which vary from state to state - answer ✔✔-What programs for health
care services does the State Health policy pay for?
the opportunity for states to develop State Health
Insurance Exchanges (SHIEs)—a set of state regulated and standardized health care plans from which
individuals may purchase health insurance
eligible for federal subsidies - answer ✔✔-What is the key piece of the health care reform legislation?
-Funds health-related research
➢ Funds education for health professionals, including
nurses and physicians
➢ Pays for health care through Medicare, Medicaid,
SCHIP, and the Veterans Administration health care
system - answer ✔✔-What does Federal Health Policy fund?
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS FULLY
ELABORATED
State and federal governments play an increasingly important role in health care (EX: Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010) - answer ✔✔-What should you get involved in Politics?
Patient safety and quality; access to affordable health coverage and services; and costs, value, and
outcomes of services have become a major debate among policymakers - answer ✔✔-How is Nursing
practice affected by health policy
development?
Our numbers, education, scope of practice, and overall value to the health care system - answer ✔✔-
Why/How has the National attention on nurses/nursing practice has increased?
Set course of action taken by governments or health
care organizations to obtain desired health outcome - answer ✔✔-What Is Health Policy?
health care organizations such as hospitals and managed care
organizations - answer ✔✔-Who is Private health policy is made by?
Public health policy refers to local, state, and federal
legislation; regulation; and court rulings that govern the behavior of individuals and organizations in the
provision of health care services - answer ✔✔-What does public health policy refer to?
Cities or counties offer a variety of health care
services to meet the needs of their residents - answer ✔✔-Local Health Policy
, Examples include free or reduced-rate immunizations,
tobacco-free public buildings, safe drinking water,
enforcement of seat belt and child restraint laws, and
provision of an emergency medical system - answer ✔✔-What are examples of Local Health Policy?
Governs nursing through nurse practice act - answer ✔✔-How does the State Health Policy govern
nursing?
-Maintaining a safe meat supply through livestock inspections
• Ensuring safe food storage and preparation in restaurants
• Ensuring that health care facilities provide safe, quality care - answer ✔✔-What "invisible services"
does the State Health policy provide through regulatory activities?
• Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program
(SCHIP), which are partly funded by federal funds
• Other indigent care programs, which vary from state to state - answer ✔✔-What programs for health
care services does the State Health policy pay for?
the opportunity for states to develop State Health
Insurance Exchanges (SHIEs)—a set of state regulated and standardized health care plans from which
individuals may purchase health insurance
eligible for federal subsidies - answer ✔✔-What is the key piece of the health care reform legislation?
-Funds health-related research
➢ Funds education for health professionals, including
nurses and physicians
➢ Pays for health care through Medicare, Medicaid,
SCHIP, and the Veterans Administration health care
system - answer ✔✔-What does Federal Health Policy fund?
