Understanding How policy affects patients’ and Health care consumers’ overall health

Understanding how policy affects patients’ and health care consumers’ overall health will bolster an already well-established understanding of the importance of nurses’ advocacy for their patients.

Consider the health outcomes of patients who are either uninsured or underinsured. Provide details about how health policy can positively and negatively have an impact on the rate of uninsured and underinsured people.

Review The Uninsured and the ACA: A Primer – Key Facts about Health Insurance and the Uninsured amidst Changes to the Affordable Care Act from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Part 1 

Address the following questions:

• Who are the underinsured and uninsured?
• Why are they underinsured or uninsured?
• What impact do they have on health care cost?
• What impact do they have on access to care?
• What are the affected resources within hospitals?
• What threats to public health do they pose?

Part 2

Answers the following questions:

Include Introduction and Conclusion

Number and write out the question

1. How has policy affected the rate of underinsured and uninsured individuals?
2. What impact has underinsured and uninsured individuals had on insured individuals in terms of cost, access to care, and resources?