HEALTHCARE POLICY ANALYSIS PAPER
BILL NAME: H.R. 3772: Stop Obesity in Schools Act of 2015
This assignment requires a written analysis of a health policy issue that has been recently addressed (within last 48 months) in a state legislature or in Congress. A “resolution” is not permitted; it must be a bill or a law.
This paper requires that you analyze and synthesize the information regarding your bill or law with the knowledge that you gained from this course and additional searching and researching of information specifically related to the bill you have chosen. Your paper should exactly follow the section headings and subheadings as laid out in the rubric (Sections 1 through 6). Omission of required analysis within each section headings and subheadings shall result in reduction in points—omission of relevant information. Likewise, misplacing appropriate analysis (i.e. analysis of information that does not correspond to each section heading/subheading—irrelevant information) shall not result in points, as the work of discerning appropriate content/information itself is a critical process of writing an analysis paper.
1. Introduction
a. Bill # and Title
b. Identify a health care issue for which legislation has currently or recently been proposed or passed in a state legislature or in Congress.
c. Describe how the chosen piece of legislation will specifically affect Advance Practice Nursing practice.
2. Describe the environment that BROUGHT this issue to the forefront. In this section, you describe what has happened in the past (up to this point) in each respective environment that influenced bringing this issue to the forefront. This section is NOT about what is going to happen in the future (i.e. consequences or effects of the bill). Of note, you will discuss the consequences/effects of the bill in the section 4.
a. sociocultural
b. ethical
c. economic,
d. political AND legislative
3. Passage/progression of the bill: Identify difficulties encountered in the effort to pass the bill and actions taken by sponsors (legislators) and by stakeholders to propel the legislation forward.
a. Include identification of bill sponsors (legislators) who supported and those who opposed the bill and actions they have taken.
b. Include identification of stakeholders who supported and those who opposed the bill and actions they have taken. Stakeholders can be people (whether individuals or specific groups) or institutions such as American Nurses Association, American Medical Association, industries manufacturing health care products or technology, consumers of health care, health care providers, etc.
c. If the legislation has not been passed, discuss pessimistic AND optimistic timelines set to achieve the goals. If passed, discuss the actual timeline.
4. Discuss the actual and/or potential consequences or effects of the bill on health care providers and on consumers. In each category (i.e. providers or consumers), include both positive AND negative consequences/effects as well as long-term AND short-term consequences/effects.
5. Compare the policy goal addressed by the bill with how the same goal is achieved in another country or state. In your comparison, think through the aspects of your bill discussed in sections 1 through 4 to discuss how those of another country or state are similar to, or different from, your chosen bill.
6. Suggest two options for refining the measures or programs in the legislation to improve policy outcomes.

7. Paper should be 10-10.5 pages in length (double space, one inch margins, not counting title page, abstract page, and references) and should be typed in 12 point type and referenced in APA style following the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. A minimum of 10 references must be used, including 3 scholarly journal articles. Only primary references are to be used. Abstract should be a synopsis of what is written in your paper corresponding to sections 1 through 6. Abstract should NOT be written as an introduction to the paper. Papers are expected to be of publishable quality.