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   To prepare for this assignment, review the key components of the health care policy process in Ch. 3 of Health policymaking in the United States. Additionally, Chapters 5-9 of the course text are also excellent resources for each stage of the policy process. Here is a breakdown of what you can find in each chapter of Longest (2016):

   • Chapter 5: Formulation
   • Chapter 6: Legislation
   • Chapter 7: Implementation
   • Chapter 8: Implementation/Analysis/Evaluation
   • Chapter 9: Analysis/Evaluation and Revision

   The policy cycle provides lawmakers with a pathway for developing a policy and guiding it through the institutions of our government. The cycle starts with identification of a targeted problem and ultimately ends up with providing a specific course of action. Along the way, the outcomes of a policy are subjected to various levels of review, evaluation, and revisions that result in a continual loop. As a health care administrator, it’s important to have a working knowledge of the process and how the process ultimately leads to implementation of health care laws that eventually will have an impact on what you do.Write a 800- to 1,050-word paper that explains the policy process and explains how the Affordable Care Act advanced through the policy process stages. Your paper must include the following:1.Discuss five stages of the policy process identified in Longest (2016)–at least 100-150 words to describe each stage:

   • Formulation
   • Legislation
   • Implementation
   • Evaluation/analysis,
   • Revision

   2.Explain how the Affordable Care Act advanced through each stage of the policy process

   • How the law was formed/proposed and then passed by Congress
   • How it has been implemented and what agencies primarily implement the law
   • One or two ways the ACA can be evaluated
   • List at least one revision to the law since it has been passed

   Cite at least 3 reputable references. One of your sources must be the course textbook, Longest (2016). Reputable references include trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works a textbook, or other sources of similar quality.