Medicare

Medicare

This assignment reinforces information in your textbook and concepts presented in this unit. Your responses should be thorough, well-conceived college-level responses that are grammatically correct. When you answer these questions, you must support your responses. You must justify your responses with facts and details from the readings, with your opinions and with your conclusions and interpretations.

You will be graded on the accuracy and thoroughness of your responses. Please write in complete sentences unless otherwise directed.
You should work on this assignment as you go through the chapter(s). You must complete this assignment by the unit due date.

List two audiences that would benefit from an integrated system, and describe why and how they would benefit.
Compare and contrast the roles that Medicare and Medicaid play in financing a continuum of services.
What are the most important policy issues relating to financing services that must be faced at the federal and state levels? Explain two options for resolving each issue.
Describe three principles that you would favor to guide long-term care policy making, and discuss the effect that each would have on legislation; please also cite examples.
Define several core ethical principles relevant to the delivery of health care across the continuum.
Describe barriers to accessing health care faced by people with disabilities and strategies for overcoming these barriers.
Identify integrating mechanisms necessary to address the needs of persons with disabilities.
Define consumer-directed home services, and discuss reasons for their growing popularity.