Writing Assignment 2: Case Analysis

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Writing Assignment #1:
The first Focused Writing Assignment is to produce a 3-page page (double-spaced, 1 inch margins, 11 or 12pt Times New Roman or Calibri preferred font) identifying 3 separate provisions of the Affordable Care Act that are (respectively):

• Distributive,
• regulatory, and
• Redistributive
Briefly explain the stakeholder groups and policy process that led to the inclusion of each in the final law.
You need only identify and explain one ACA policy provision per category (distributive, regulatory, redistributive). Dedicating one page per policy category is a good approach to structuring your paper http://obamacarefacts.com/summary-of-provisions-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act/ http://kff.org/interactive/implementation-timeline/
Closing the Medicare Drug Coverage Gap 2011 Regulatory
Closing the Medicare Drug Coverage Gap
Implementation: January 1, 2011 (drug discount) and January 1, 2013 (federal subsidies)
Regulatory policies are restrictions on the behavior of private and government actors. This provision is a regulatory policy which benefits part D Medicare participants. Congress has addressed a major complaint associated with the benefit: the “donut hole”. The beneficiary is responsible for paying 100 percent of the cost of prescription
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Their benefit is in the form of cost distribution among taxpayers. The Affordable Care Act established a new State plan option to provide home and community-based attendant services and supports. Section 2401 of the Affordable Care Act, entitled ‘‘Community First Choice Option,’’ adds a new section 1915(k) of the Social Security Act (the Act) that allows States, at their option, to provide home and community-based attendant services and supports under their State plan. This option, available October 1, 2011, allows States to receive a 6 percentage point increase in Federal matching payments for expenditures related to this