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Week 3 - Assignment

Outline Worksheet and Final Paper Pre-Planning

Building on your assignment from Week 2, this week you will expand on your topic and develop a thesis statement and an outline for your Final Paper.

Prepare: This is the second step in writing your Final Paper, so please be sure to re-review the POL201 Assignment Guide and the POL201 Final Paper template within the online classroom. Reflect on the policy topic that you determined last week and review your instructor’s comments and feedback regarding the policy and preliminary research. Review the research articles you found last week and determine what other aspects of the policy still need to be discussed and supported.

Reflect: Reflecting on your policy and your previous research, think about how to best structure your thesis (the argument) that you are supporting within this assignment. For this assignment, you will establish your thesis and then outline your paper with your supporting resources. You will utilize your four references from last week and add at least two additional references this week, for a total of six sources for this week’s assignment. At least four of these resources should be from the Ashford University Library. The following resources will help you to use the library effectively to find resources for your assignment:

For guidance on using library databases to locate scholarly, peer-reviewed articles click on Help! Need Article (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and then click the “How Do I Search for Articles” button from the menu.

For guidance on identifying the types of sources you can use for academic research, watch this interactive tutorial on Evaluating Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Continue the research process and find sources that support your ideas and that can be integrated into your paper effectively. The POL201 Research Guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.is designed to help you find sources for your paper. Be sure you make use of this librarian-created resource for your assignment.

The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Be sure that the sources you are utilizing to support your ideas are valid, reliable, and not overly bias. For more information on identifying information bias, watch this interactive tutorial on Subjective and Objective Statements (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Write: You will establish and develop a strong thesis for your Final Paper. The thesis (see Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) will serve as the backbone of your Final Paper and should showcase in one complete statement what your policy is, why it is important, and how it relates to policymaking and government program administration within the American national government.

Once you have established your thesis, you will then outline (see Outlining (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) your Final Paper utilizing outline format. When utilizing an outline, be sure to include the elements from the Week 2 assignment and remember to use headings and subheadings. All sentences within your outline should be complete and should help to support your ideas.

To complete the assignment, save the Week 3 Outline Worksheet to your computer, fill it out, and submit it via Waypoint. Within the worksheet, you will state your thesis statement, provide an outline of your paper, and integrate the four sources from your annotated bibliography, plus two more sources, into your outline to showcase how these resources support your ideas. Provide a full APA references list with a minimum of six sources. Please be sure to utilize outline format and to support all statements with scholarly research. All references should be listed in full APA format and cited appropriately.

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Running head: THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

The Affordable Care Act (2010)
Your Name
POL 201 – American National Government
Ashford University
Instructor's Name
Month Day, Year

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THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

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The Affordable Care Act (2010)
Introduction
At least every country has issues to content with when it comes to healthcare. The United
States of America has had struggles too even with its status as a world leader in most sectors
including this particular one. In its history, America has stipulated and enacted several policies in
an attempt to cab the gaps in access to healthcare. In the year 2010, the affordable care act was
formulated in a bid to transform the healthcare sector mainly in the area of health insurance. The
intention was to enhance access to healthcare by all Americans through subsidized and
mandatory health insurance plans. This policy is based on shared responsibility principle to meet
the health needs of the poor (Fowler, Franz & Ridout, 2018). The act has a lot of promise in
terms of its capability to transform the healthcare system tremendously. However, there are
many issues about the history and constitution of the United States may thwart this act. In
addition, the act conflicts with the public policy and is a hot topic with the media. The act is also
subject to the outcome of voting and the election process. Hence, the affordable care act can be
effective but remains a contentious policy for the United States.
Historical and Constitutional Background
The Act comprise of extensions and revisions to the many laws that constitute the
complex federal legal healthcare framework. This law improved the laws that had been in
existence to set basic legal protections that America has lacked over the years (Jacobs &
Skocpol, 2016). The objective was to lower the number of the uninsured Americans by half as a
way of ensuring a near universal access to quality healthcare. Given the complex nature of the
American government, po...


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