Health Policy Issues in the US and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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Identify two major policy issues that affect the current state of health care delivery and population health equity in the United States (may be state or federal). What impact do these population health policies and initiatives have on advanced nursing practice?
Healthcare is a necessary human need. Health policies are essential and refer to the plans undertaken with the aim to get specific health care goals within the society. The policies help shape whole health care landscape and incorporate patients and providers where nurses and nurse practitioners take on the role of shaping, executing, and accessing their community’s health policies (Duffy, 2015). The two main policy concerns that have an impact on the present state of health care provision and population health fairness in the US include disparities relating to health care coverage policies and issues relating to principal health care costs such as addressing the issue of excesses in health care costs (Fiedler & Young, 2019). These people health policies and initiatives influence Advanced nursing practice such that program makers at all levels of government are able to effe...