General Decision Making: Explain the overall impact stakeholders and interest groups can have on decision making regarding your chosen issue. Do not include any financially related impacts. Consider the following guiding question in your response:
Why is it important to consider nonfinancial stakeholder and/or interest group impacts when it comes to making health policy decisions, particularly relating to this issue?
Benefits and Disadvantages: Explain which stakeholders and/or interest groups might financially benefit or be disadvantaged by your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding questions in your response:
How might stakeholders and/or interest groups benefit from this issue?
How might stakeholders and/or interest groups be disadvantaged by this issue?
How might those in vulnerable populations or underserved areas be financially benefited or disadvantaged by this issue?
Competing Value Conflicts: Describe how competing financial value conflicts between stakeholders could be addressed with respect to your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding questions in your response:
What financial value conflicts might patients have with respect to this issue?
What financial value conflicts might healthcare providers have with respect to this issue?
What financial value conflicts might insurance companies have with respect to this issue?
What financial value conflicts might other stakeholders have with respect to this issue?
Why is it important to understand these value conflicts when making decisions related to health policy?
How might the competition between these financial value conflicts affect both stakeholders’ influence on the issue and how stakeholders are impacted by the issue itself?
Financial Decision Making: Explain the financial impact stakeholders and interest groups can have on decision making regarding your chosen issue. Consider the following guiding question in your response:
Why is it important to consider financial stakeholder and/or interest group impacts when it comes to making health policy decisions, particularly relating to this issue?
Recommendation
Position Statement: Recommend a strategic approach to decision making for your chosen health policy issue based on your assessment findings. Consider the following guiding questions in your response:
Based on your findings, would you suggest the organization move forward with pursuing changes to their current policies?
If so, how might they be able to move forward with these changes?
If not, what other strategies or recommendations would you make instead, given the information you currently have available?
