dr rocal 4150 law letter
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HSA 4150 – Global Healthcare Systems and Policy
Guidelines for Group Project: Letter of Support or Opposition to Proposed Law
Near the middle of the term, as noted on Blackboard and in the Course Schedule, each Group Spokesperson shall post for their group a 1-2 page letter
of support or opposition to a “proposed” (pending) health related law (i.e., Global preferred, but Federal, State or Local bills are acceptable). The
proposed topic shall be approved by the professor via the appropriate assignment folder/drop box in Blackboard.
a. Each group shall use a “proposed” (pending) law. The proposal shall be currently awaiting approval somewhere globally, as long as it is health related. Groups may find proposed legislation globally, in the United States, individual States, County or City/Town. Proposed legislation may
be obtained by requesting copies of upcoming agendas from the respective legislative bodies. For local (county and city laws) they are called
“proposed” ordinances (do not use resolutions since they are legally deemed only temporary measures subject to change). At the Federal and
State levels, there are various sites for each of the legislative bodies. Groups should begin with congressional or legislative committee agendas
to find out what is being considered. A good place to start is by watching the news. Remember: health related is a very broad term (e.g., seat
belts, obesity, gun laws etc.,) For Florida laws a good resource to begin with can be found at:
http://www.thefloridacurrent.com/index.cfm?catid=56.
b. Each group, by way of their spokesperson, shall submit a top 3 list of “proposed” (pending) legislation they are interested in using for this project via the Assignment Folder as indicated on the Course Schedule. At a minimum, each “proposed” law shall be identified by bill number
(e.g., CS/ SB number if the legislation is pending in the U.S. federal or state level) or other identifying designation, which clearly identifies the
legislation as currently pending and not an adopted/passed or existing law. Your law can be pending in one state where it has been adopted in
others. This is still pending and your group can use the experiences of other jurisdictions to support your position.
c. The form of the Letter of Support or Opposition to a “proposed” (pending) law shall be similar to that found in the additional resources provided on Blackboard on how to write letters of support or opposition. Additionally, the letter shall address, briefly, in the narrative, substantive
arguments of concerned interest groups taking the opposite position from that advanced by the Group. The letter shall be properly addressed to
an appropriate legislative official and a subject line included, identifying the subject of the letter and the direction the group desires the elected
official to side on. Furthermore, all sources shall be properly cited and referenced in APA Style.
d. Authoritative sources are defined as books, peer reviewed journals, education and government sites as well as non-partisan national or international organizations (such as WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS etc.,).
e. Each issue, question, paragraph is required to contain at least one external authoritative source to support the statements and
conclusions made therein.
f. The assignment must be posted in the appropriate Assignment Folder. Submissions shall be in the Text Box and NOT in the Comment
Box or as an Attachment. Any assignment posting submitted in the Comment Box or as an Attachment shall receive ZERO credit!
Therefore, it is strongly recommended that groups create responses as word documents first, run spell and grammar check before
cutting/pasting/uploading in text box.
g. Grading Rubric: 4-Excellent 3-Good 2-Fair 1-Poor
The narrative is factually correct (i.e., the group shall not pretend to be anything they are not) and briefly addresses substantive arguments of groups with opposing interests.
The narrative is factually correct (i.e., the group shall not pretend to be anything they are not) and briefly addresses substantive arguments of groups with opposing interests with a few missing details.
The narrative is factually correct (i.e., the group shall not pretend to be anything they are not), but does not address substantive arguments of groups with opposing interests.
The narrative is not factually correct (i.e., the group shall not pretend to be anything they are not), nor does it address substantive arguments of groups with opposing interests.
Letter complies with the appropriate format provided in the Additional Resources.
Addressed to appropriate legislative official.
Includes a subject line identifying the subject of the letter and the direction the group wishes the elected official to side on.
The letter complies with the appropriate format with a few errors.
The letter complies with the appropriate format with excessive errors.
The letter does not comply with the two components set forth in the Additional Resources.
The letter contains statistics AND authoritative sources
Letter contains both authoritative sources and statistics with a few faulty data.
Letter contains only one of the two required components.
Letter does not contain any statistics or authoritative sources.
All sources are properly cited and referenced in APA style.
Sources are properly cited and referenced in APA style with minimum errors.
Several sources are not cited or referenced in APA style.
There are no sources cited and referenced in APA style.
Letter meets the required maximum of 2 pages.
Letter exceeds 2 pages. Letter meets the required maximum of 2 pages.
Letter exceeds 2 pages.
Posting and sharing completed work on third party websites:
As a student at Florida International University Health Services Administration (HSA) program, you work hard to accomplish your
educational goal/degree. Therefore, it is critical that you protect the integrity of your work. The HSA department strongly discourages
the posting and sharing of your work including but not limited to, assignments, discussions, papers, quizzes and test answers. This
includes indirectly sharing your work by posting it to a third party website, learning platform database such as Course Hero,
StudyMode, or any other external database outside of the blackboard course. If you share your original work to any of these third party
sites it is an automatic disqualification from any publication opportunities to medical or educational journals. The HSA department
prohibits use of material from any of the forgoing sites in student submissions. Turnitin will identify such use as plagiarism and will
result in a zero grade.
In addition, unless explicitly stated otherwise, all course materials are the property of FIU, faculty and their respective copyright
holders. The sharing or redistribution of any course materials to third parties is strictly prohibited.
The above actions violate Florida International University’s Academic Integrity, the Student Conduct policies and the Nicole
Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences policies of Academic Misconduct. Students who are found in violation of these
policies will be dismissed from the degree program and or University.