Description
1. Kraft textbook - Read p. 380-425 "Environmental and Energy Policy".
2. Kraft textbook - Read p. 426-466 "Foreign Policy and Homeland Security".
3. Kraft textbook - Read p. 468-493 "Policy Analysis, and Policy Choice".
Book: Kraft, M. E., Furlong, S. R., (2012). 5th Ed. Public policy: Politics, analysis, and alternatives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN-10: 1483345785 ISBN-13: 978-1483345789
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Consider one or more major policy challenges, such as reforming health care, reforming the major federal entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid), redesigning the tax code, or developing a national energy or climate change policy. What do you think are the major advantages or disadvantages of incremental policy change? Similarly, what do you think are the major advantages or disadvantages or perusing policy change the is more far-reaching or radical, whether the ideas are endorsed by the right or left side of the political spectrum?
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: CHALLENGES IN REFORMING HEALTHCARE
Challenges in Reforming Healthcare
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CHALLENGES IN REFORMING HEALTHCARE
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Incremental Policy Change
Incremental policy changes have advantages of making healthcare services more efficient
through streamlining costs and improving management care. Reforms also create new models in
healthcare's as the hospitals become accountable for their patients. New reforms, as well as help
the bottom line of the healthcare centers by creating more funds for services (Kraft & Furlong,
2012). The disadvantages...