US HealthCare Policy Analysis

Executive Summary

In health, most countries faced the need to transform their systems large and inefficient, which had operated with the same policies established during the post-war period. Despite major advances in the health status of many populations, it is known that much more must be done to solve the problems that still prevail, and prepare for future challenges caused by growing demand - and changing - costs coupled with rampant. With these policy challenges and the significant influence of the international scenario health policy, there is a consensus among public officials, service providers health, and users of these services, the need for structural changes in the sector health. However, there is no general consensus on the content of the agenda sector reform. The definition of the problems solved, the means for effecting resolution, like the speed and magnitude of policy changes are all issues contentious and each affects the interests of groups and individuals in different ways. In the case of a health reform, the change team will feel pressure and competition Access to the reform process which has its source in the state, concurrent with pressures outside groups in society. While the state has to win the support of large groups in society coalition for change of policy, the change team must win the support, or at least neutralize resistance from other factions within the government, such as decision-makers from other sectors and the bureaucracy. The act of creating a change team and placing it in a position of leadership of a reform process can be considered as a strategy in itself. A government adopts this strategy in order to increase their autonomy from the pressures of stakeholders-both inside and outside the state and improve the chances of achieve policy changes. In the process of creating and using a change team, the government facilitates the use of a series of political maneuvers designed to improve the feasibility its policy reform agenda.

US HealthCare Policy Analysis

Introduction

This paper presents a public health professionals generated concepts and perspectives from political science and public policies relevant to build healthier. It is stated that currently there is no uniform view of public interests, and decisions are often driven by government commitment criteria. In the public debate, the most important perspective is the ability of persuasion. From the standpoint of public policy analysis, problem definition that triggers the policy is crucial deciding what is just is just the definition of problem that has proved successful in the public debate between different actors and their definitions problem. From the perspective of policy analysis, it is considered that the list of problems on the agenda of public authorities is not necessarily the most serious, that every actor tries to push his point of view.

The American political system has its own characteristics as a result of its evolution during different historical periods. A relatively weak democratic tradition has tended to make less obvious the decision making on public policy, weighing much less elements and ...