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Health Policy and Law Basics
As a chief operating officer of a hospital, you have been tasked with opening a new ambulatory care center in your city.
Write a paper in which you:
- Specify whether you would utilize the professional autonomy, social contract, or free market perspective as the paradigm to design the structure of your new center. Debate at least two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of your chosen perspective. Provide at least two (2) examples of your perspective in action to support your response.
- Analyze the key components of three (3) sources of law related to the effects that each source could potentially have on your healthcare organization’s new initiative.
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Health policy and law should be critically considered when opening and running
health services. As Teitelbaum and Wilensky (2019) recommend, healthcare providers should
not only conceptualize health policy and law from healthcare policy, public health policy, and
bioethics perspectives, but they should also conceptualize it from social, economic, and
political historical contexts. In the latter, healthcare providers should consider professional
autonomy, contract, and free-market perspectives. Since each of these perspectives has its
benefits and drawbacks, selecting the most appropriate one has a significant impact on the
success of a new establishment.
In the current scenario, the free marker perspective is the most appropriate for a new
ambulatory care center. This choice has been made due to the uniqueness of the perspective
and the benefits that it presents as compared to the other two perspectives. As Teitelbaum and
Wilensky explain, professional autonomy is an outdated model that dominated the healthcare
sector between 1880 and 1960, in which it advocated for the author...