Milestone Four Full analysis

Running Head: FINAL PROJECT MILESTONE THREE: ANALYSIS ONLINE

ANALYSIS ONLINE

5.2 Final Project Milestone Three: Analysis Online

Maria Williams

Health Policy and Law 21TW5

8/29/2021

Outline

a. Analysis of Stakeholder Needs and Interests

1. The key stakeholders in the case include health professionals and workers, patients, and government regulators.

2. Each of these stakeholder groups have their distinct needs and interests. The patients, for instance, need to be given a high quality of health care services by the professionals.

3. The government’s interests, on the other hand, is to promote equitable allocation of job positions to ensure that the Spanish population are also represented in the workforce.

4. Furthermore, the hospital administrators need a culturally competent health care services.

b. Applying Current Laws

1. The laws that are relevant to the case include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Equal Employment Opportunity Act, and the Medicare and Medicaid Act.

2. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is relevant to the case because it promotes high quality of care to both minority and majority groups (Sommers et al., 2017).

3. Similarly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act calls for fair representation of all cultural and ethnic groups in the workplace (Arnzen, 2019).

4. Further, the Medicare and Medicaid Act is applicable to the issues since the State of Albacore has cautioned hospitals that do not observe the 30% threshold for Spanish representation will receive only 50% of the Medicaid reimbursement (Jaffe, 2019).

c. The Potential Conflicts

1. The bill may generate different conflicts based on the interests of each stakeholder group.

2. For instance, the health care institutions may object to the bill because they will have to hire new and less experienced workers.

3. Additionally, the existing health care professionals may feel that restructuring the workplace to promote cultural equity may be a threat to their employment status.

4. Furthermore, the State government may receive criticisms for their failure to reimburse full Medicaid packages to non-complying hospitals.

d. Legal Risks

1. There are many potential legal risks that the bill may generate.

2. For instance, the state government may attract litigations from activists.

3. Such activists may feel that it is the government’s obligation to reimburse Medicaid packages in full, irrespective of health institutions’ compliance with the bill.

References

Arnzen, T. C. (2019). The Investigatory Power of the Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission: Toward a Rule against Perpetuities. N. Ky. L. Rev., 46, 143.

Jaffe, S. (2019). Home health care providers struggle with state laws and Medicare rules as

demand rises. Health Affairs, 38(6), 981-986.

Sommers, B. D., Maylone, B., Blendon, R. J., Orav, E. J., & Epstein, A. M. (2017). Three-year

impacts of the Affordable Care Act: improved medical care and health among low-income adults. Health Affairs, 36(6), 1119-1128.