7-1 Reflection Journal: Public Health Emergencies Instructions In your opinion, what role does liability play in affecting how government agencies, healthcare providers, and individuals behave during public health emergencies? What role should it play? How does liability during a public health emergency impact health law and policy?  For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric documen 6-2 Brief Analysis Paper: Local Medicaid Policy Instructions Review Box 11-1 ("Vignette") in Chapter 11 of your textbook. Develop a strategy to help the governor evaluate whether to expand Medicaid and create a state-run insurance exchange. Be sure to advise the governor on how to engage with key stakeholders. Explain the role stakeholders should have in shaping these policy choices. Your strategy should suggest an approach to resolving value conflicts among stakeholders. For additional details, please refer to the Brief Analysis Paper Guidelines and Rubricdocument. 4-2 Brief Analysis Paper: State and Local Reform Instructions Healthcare reform can take place at multiple levels of government and in the context of professional regulation. Pretend that you are a policy aide to a governor. How would you engage with key stakeholders to determine which reform efforts (in the areas of payment reform, medical malpractice, and patient access to preventive services) should be prioritized in your state? Clearly identify the potential key stakeholders and propose a plan for engagement.  For additional details, please refer to the Brief Analysis Paper Guidelines and Rubric 2-2 Reflection Journal: No Right to Healthcare Instructions As you will discover in your readings, citizens of the United States do not enjoy a fundamental, constitutional right to healthcare. In many other countries, this right is deemed fundamental and is protected by laws in various forms. In your opinion, why has the United States taken a different approach? What are the pros and cons of no fundamental right to healthcare in the United States?  Explain how different approaches to this issue impact stakeholders. In your opinion, which impacts are the most undervalued by the approach adopted by the United States (i.e., no right to healthcare) and the approach adopted by some other countries (a “fundamental” right to healthcare)?  For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric document. 1-2 Reflection Journal: The Policy-Making Process Instructions Review the policy-making process. Analyze three different opportunities for individuals to influence the policy-making process. What are the pros and cons of each approach? Which individuals are most likely to use which approach? How can policy makers consider this information and weigh input from a variety of individuals?  In your final project for this course, the policy memorandum, you will conduct a policy analysis and make recommendations. Review each of these prompts: · Issue Prom.

1. 7-1 Reflection Journal: Public Health Emergencies
Instructions
In your opinion, what role does liability play in affecting how
government agencies, healthcare providers, and individuals
behave during public health emergencies? What role should it
play? How does liability during a public health emergency
impact health law and policy?
For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and
Rubric documen
6-2 Brief Analysis Paper: Local Medicaid Policy
Instructions
Review Box 11-1 ("Vignette") in Chapter 11 of your textbook.
Develop a strategy to help the governor evaluate whether to
expand Medicaid and create a state-run insurance exchange.
Be sure to advise the governor on how to engage with key
stakeholders. Explain the role stakeholders should have in
shaping these policy choices. Your strategy should suggest an
approach to resolving value conflicts among stakeholders.
For additional details, please refer to the Brief Analysis Paper
Guidelines and Rubricdocument.
4-2 Brief Analysis Paper: State and Local Reform
Instructions
Healthcare reform can take place at multiple levels of
government and in the context of professional regulation.
Pretend that you are a policy aide to a governor. How would
you engage with key stakeholders to determine which reform

2. efforts (in the areas of payment reform, medical malpractice,
and patient access to preventive services) should be prioritized
in your state? Clearly identify the potential key stakeholders
and propose a plan for engagement.
For additional details, please refer to the Brief Analysis Paper
Guidelines and Rubric
2-2 Reflection Journal: No Right to Healthcare
Instructions
As you will discover in your readings, citizens of the United
States do not enjoy a fundamental, constitutional right to
healthcare. In many other countries, this right is deemed
fundamental and is protected by laws in various forms. In your
opinion, why has the United States taken a different approach?
What are the pros and cons of no fundamental right to
healthcare in the United States?
Explain how different approaches to this issue impact
stakeholders. In your opinion, which impacts are the most
undervalued by the approach adopted by the United States (i.e.,
no right to healthcare) and the approach adopted by some other
countries (a “fundamental” right to healthcare)?
For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and
Rubric document.
1-2 Reflection Journal: The Policy-Making Process
Instructions
Review the policy-making process. Analyze three different
opportunities for individuals to influence the policy-making
process. What are the pros and cons of each approach? Which

3. individuals are most likely to use which approach? How can
policy makers consider this information and weigh input from a
variety of individuals?
In your final project for this course, the policy memorandum,
you will conduct a policy analysis and make recommendations.
Review each of these prompts:
· Issue Prompt One: Language
· Issue Prompt Two: Immunizations
· Issue Prompt Three: Access and Enrollment Assistance
One of these prompts will be the basis for your final project. In
your journal entry, discuss which prompt interests you and why.
How will you identify key stakeholders and their needs?
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Introduction to London Olympics Case Analysis (4 pages)
The London Olympics 2012 case contains a number of issues
and considerations. One of the most important for this course is
the issue of revenue maximization. Your group should focus
primarily on how to maximize revenue and how that would be
achieved, and what that would amount to in total revenue.
Knowing this, you would be better able to determine your
position on the other goals and how much revenue you would be
giving up to increase achievement on something else. However,
for your case analysis, you do not need to fully examine the
other goals. Focus on revenue maximization.
While in this course, for this case, we consider other objectives
as secondary, we still need to propose a practical solution. For
example, it must be technically possible to auction each ticket
off on eBay to maximize revenue, but the transaction cost,

4. delivery cost, and other frictions probably would make this
impractical, as well as being in high conflict with the other
goals.
Before doing the case, be sure you have thoroughly studied your
microeconomic material, including the additional web-based
items discussing price discrimination. In your analysis, be sure
to cover the economic principles you used.
The basic outline for a case analysis is contained below and
should be followed for your analysis of this case. That is,
provide the major facts focus on the major problem—here, for
us, that’s related to revenue maximization—possible solutions
to revenue maximization, your choice and rationale, and then
discuss implementation of that choice. There must be a practical
way to actually achieve your choice.
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Outline for the Case Analyses
Case Name:
1. Major Facts
Briefly state the key major facts as you see them. Make
statements clear and concise for your own understanding as well
as for the understanding of the other students and the instructor.
2. Major Problem
State the major problem as you see it. Emphasize the present
major problem. You may wish to phrase your statement in the
form of a question. In a few cases, there may be more than one
major problem. A good problem statement will be concise,
usually only one sentence.
3. Possible

5. Solution
s
1. List the possible solutions to the major problem. Let your
imagination come up with alternative ways to solve the
problem.
2. Do not limit yourself to only one or two possible solutions.
These solutions should be distinct from each other.
3. However, you may wish to include portions of one solution in
another solution, as long as each solution stands alone. Only in
this manner will your subsequent choice be definitive.
4. Briefly note advantages and disadvantages of each possible
solution.
4. Choice and Rationale
State your choice, A or B or ___ and the detailed reasons for
your choice. You may also briefly state your reasons for not
choosing the alternative solutions.
5. Implementation
This should be a key focus of your analyses. Describe what
actions should be taken immediately—the next day—by the
manager. Then describe what future actions over the next few
days or weeks must be taken to implement the solution you
recommend. The solution should be practical to implement,

6. given the facts of the case. Do not assume that unlimited budget
or other resources will be available.
The entire case write-up should be comprehensive, but not
lengthy. Normally a case analysis should not require outside
research, however if you do use any sources, they must be cited.
Each assignment is to be your own group's work—do not share
your solution before the case deadline.

7. Forecasting Project (4 pages summary)
Forecast Introduction:
It is a common business function to prepare a forecast of the
economy for the following year. Most often those forecasts are
compiled by estimating the changes that will occur during the
forecast period.
The most naive forecast may be to say that nothing will change
and that next year will be exactly like last year. A similarly
naive forecast may be to say that the same changes of last year
will continue, so that if GDP grew 2% last year it will also grow
2% next year. From your experiences you know that such
forecasts would be frequently useless.
Generally forecasts will look at the four major components of
GDP that we have studied and reflect upon the change expected
in each area. For example, the changes in consumption which,
as you know, is the largest component of GDP, may be quite
different than the change expected in government spending on
goods and services. The final GDP forecast will be a summation
of each of the four sectors of GDP.

8. Typically the rate of inflation would be forecast as well so that
GDP can be a stated in both nominal and real terms, although
almost all business decisions are going to be based on the real
(without inflation) forecast. Nevertheless, it is frequently
desired to consider inflation and have GDP in nominal terms as
well. While price changes could differ by sector, it is frequently
forecast in general overall, which will be a sufficient approach
for this project. Each of you probably came to a conclusion on
the rate of inflation earlier in the course.
Forecast Project Instructions:
This is a group forecasting project for instructor-selected
groups of usually 4 or 5 students.
You have been asked by your boss to forecast GDP for the
following 12 months. The forecast will be used at an executive
retreat to aid in the discussion of company plant expansion
plans. Your boss is a very intelligent, successful engineer, one
of the founders of the company, but does not have business
education or experience, so will be looking to you for that
expertise. The boss is very exacting in looking for logical
inconsistencies in all work.
The primary approach is to be by developing an expenditure
model to estimate personal consumption expenditure, gross
private domestic investment, government purchases of goods
and services, and net exports of goods and services. This
approach should be checked with other approaches for

9. consistency.
The project report should consist of a 4 page executive summary
that presents the forecast and key items of interest. The
executive summary is to be a group effort, but is expected to
reflect the individual sectors (discussed below), rather than be
new material.
In addition, the report should have several 4 page sections to
discuss the major sectors that make up the final forecast (C, Ig,
G, Xn). Each of these sections will be the work of one
individual of the group and will have that person’s name at the
top of each page. While the other members of the group are
expected to read the individual sections and should make
suggestions for improvement, it is understood that the final
product is the individual work of the student forecasting that
GDP category.
When a 5th student is assigned to the group, a separate section
will forecast the price level (inflation) over the next year. This
may be a compilation and summary of work done individually
earlier, but must clearly come to a single conclusion. The 5th
member would be responsible for reconciling the 5 inflation
forecasts and providing the justification for the rate forecast.
[Note: generally there will be no 5th student assigned to the
group, and in that case you may use an arbitrary increase of the
price level of 2% to convert your real GDP forecast to nominal
terms. That is not given as the correct percent, but is given as

10. one that is unlikely to be so grossly erroneous that it would
drive poor conclusions.]
Throughout, the report should exhibit an understanding of the
nature of business fluctuations, practical forecasting issues,
macroeconomic theory, and be written in proper business style.
The report will receive an overall grade. This grade will
constitute 50 percent of each student’s grade. The other 50
percent will be based on the student’s individual section of the
report.