At which stage of the policymaking process do agenda setting and legislative development
take place? - ✔✔Formulation stage
At which stage of the policymaking process do feedback and analysis take place? -
✔✔Modification Stage
Bill must be introduced in ___________ and _________ before it can be passed by Congress. -
✔✔each chamber, then reconciled by special joint committee
These two people decide whether to allow a bill to be introduced OR NOT - ✔✔Speaker of
the House and Senate Majority Leader
Action undertaken by Congress (or a committee) to postpone consideration of legislation -
✔✔tabling legislation
Change or addition to current law or piece of legislation - can be totally unrelated to purpose
of the bill (pork!) - ✔✔amendment
__________ can veto the bill (if no veto, automatically becomes law) - ✔✔President
,In the last 21 days of session, bill may pass through congress, but not be signed into law
(passive) - ✔✔pocket veto
Number of committees and subcommittees in the House of Representatives - ✔✔14
3 important house committees for health: - ✔✔- Energy and Commerce Committee
- Appropriations - div up the $
- Ways and Means - comes up with ways to get the money (taxes)
House committee that comes up with ways to get the money (taxes) - ✔✔ways &
means committee
House committee that is responsible for dividing up the $ - ✔✔appropriations committee
Number of senate committees and subcommittes - ✔✔24
Important senate committees related to health - ✔✔- Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
- Finance Committee
,How many legislative panels are there? - ✔✔Over 60
Examples of healthcare policies - ✔✔- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
- Indian Health Service
- Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
- COVID Relief Bills Under Trump and Biden
- Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
- National institutes of health (NIH)
Rules must be _________________________ when they are finalized - ✔✔published in Federal
Register
Process by which implementation agencies set detailed rules and regulations for the application
of laws: - ✔✔1. Experts agree on rules by which the new law will be enforced
2. Public may have an opportunity to provide input
3. Once finalized, rules/regs become guidelines for operationalizing the law
Policy modification takes place: - ✔✔Typically after policy implementation
, Things that can impact the modification: - ✔✔- Update in logic model
- Unintended consequences of implementation
- Policy analysis and reevaluation
- Resource constraints
- Changing goals
- Interest group involvement/interference
- Oversight by three branches of government
- Incremental nature of policy development
Government is in ___________ role to the private sector in providing healthcare services -
✔✔subordinate
Policymaking by government is limited to addressing ___________________ and
______________ (e.g., the creation of Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor) -
✔✔market failures and deficiencies
Most important US health legislation has been passed when both congressional chambers
are controlled by ___________________ - ✔✔the same party
When ___________________________________, chances of success are even greater - ✔✔the
president is of the same party affiliation
Well-organized interest groups (policy demanders) - ✔✔- Combine and concentrate
their members' resources
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