Class: Health Policy Topic: Healthcare Delivery in the United States, Delivery Innovations From your course textbook, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, read the following chapters: • Reimbursing Health Care Providers • How Health Care Is Organized—I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care • How Health Care Is Organized—II: Health Delivery Systems • The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered. For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by Saturday, October 31, 2015. To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment by Wednesday, November 4, 2015. Structures of Medical Practices Explain the structures of medical practices (e.g., solo practice, group practice, or multispecialty groups). Research your own geographic region (town, city, county, or state) to find out the most predominant structure found in your community and provide insight into why that structure emerged as the prevailing way to organize office-based medical care. Impact of Law on Practices Explain how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called the ACA, will impact the type of practices in your area. Do you believe that practices will change their structure to accommodate the new law? Why or why not?