Informing Policy: The Government Policy Process

Benchmark: Informing Policy
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Abstract
This paper provides a glimpse into what constitutes the health policy-making process. The health policy-making process is of great interest to the government, people, and multiple stakeholders. It can be denied as a process that is characterized by support, partnerships, collaboration, and lobbying, as well as delicate balancing of powers, socio-economic, and political factors. Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019 is an example of a health policy act that seeks to enhance timely access to health services among senior citizens in the U.S who use Medicare Advantage Plans by minimizing challenges that are caused by prior authorization before one accesses medications and medical procedures.
Benchmark: Informing Policy
Introduction
The progress in our contemporary societies is a product of the policy-making process. Ideally, the emergency of new policies or amendments of previous ones is informed by the need for a change or existing gaps in societal systems. There are myriad of policies that define the current U.S healthcare system, as informed by the emerging, existing healthcare needs. This paper, among other things, will focus on diverse issues. First, it will do an exposition on how the government policy process informs the development, implementation, and assessment of such policy within the realm of healthcare. Second, it will illustrate how an example of health policy impacts on healthcare consumers, organizations, healthcare providers, and systems. This paper will use Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019 as an example of a policy to show how it affects the health arena. Finally, I will discuss this paper base on an imagined organization that I work with in terms of stakeholder engagements in policy formulation and its impact on healthcare policy a formation and structures, stakeholder response, and the specific impact this government policy will make.
The Government Policy Process
The government is one of the actors at the center of the health policy framework and is associated with processes in the development, implementation, and assessment of such policy within the realm of healthcare. These policies represent the results of intricate policy-making processes, which are characterized by socio-economic and political dynamics. Public policies, for instance, health policies, are authoritative decisions made in the legislative as represented by the congressional, executive team, which falls under the confines of the presidential office or judicial system, which can direct or influence the actions, behaviors, or decisions of others. Thus, it can be argued that the public policies, as espoused in health policies in the context of the health system, reflect an aggregation of principles, which are stated or unstated. The healthcare policies are primed to define resource distribution, service delivery, and political influence that determine the health of the population.
In the policy-making process, politics is omnipresent. This could mean that the understanding of the politics surround the policy-making process is essential as comprehending how medicines work. While academic disciplines may provi...