Healthcare Policy Tools

A healthcare policy is a set rules and regulation that are put into effect to help assist operating and shaping the health care system. Health care policies that cover issues such as public health, disability, financing of public healthcare and mental health. Regulatory health policy tools look to the government use to help control and assign the behavior of certain groups by monitoring and enforcing the rules if they fail to follow imposing sanctions on them (Shi Singh, 2013). For example, the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organization known as JCAHO is one of the oldest regulatory tools in healthcare. They help set standards for hospitals and healthcare facilities. If a facility fails to meet standard, they face fines or
There are two type of allocative tools. The distributive allocative tool is used to disperse funds throughout the community. Examples are medical reaches, construction of new health care facilities and development of new health care programs. Retributive policies are those that take funds from one group and give it to another group Medicaid is an example of this. Tax revenue generated from the public it is taken and used to provide free health insurance to people living below the poverty line (Shi &Singh, 2013). Political interest group pluralism has an effect on health care policies. Each group fight very hard to protect their own interest. Currently the American Association of Retired Person (AARP) have the most powerful lobbyist groups advocating for expanding financing for long-term care for the elderly (Shi &Singh, 2013). If I could lobby for any group, it would have to be the legal blind and deaf groups. I believe those individuals do not have enough resources to help them find jobs after high school or college. Providing reliable transportation to and from work. I have several legally blind friends the biggest issues they are facing right now is lack of jobs and transportation; with this current system they have wait hours for