Healthcare Policies and Ethics in the US

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1. The US health care policies are made by two ways- policies are formed both at the Meso-
level and Micro-level health care policies. On a smaller scale, the microsystems includes
the local hospitals and the clinics that generates the health care policies for the exclusive
use. The policy committee are the guiding force behind the formation of the meso-level
policies (Buse, Mays & Walt, 2012). At the macro-level, the health care policies are made
on the federal level. The elected officials are responsible for writing a policy with the help
of the other professionals with experience in health care policy making. The health care
policy working under the federal government is made through three branches of the
government- The legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch that
helps in the interpretation of the policy. The U.S department of the Health and Human
services (HHS) manages the programs like Medicaid, Medicare and other government
insurance programs.
The federal and the state lawmakers depends on the health care policies for protecting
and promoting health to the public. The meso-syetm, macro system works independently
for providing the health care throughout the country. The main aim of the health care
policies is to take the quality standards, enhance the patient safety and promote safe
health outcomes (Murthy et al., 2012).
2. Ethics are important in making health care policies as the policies are made for the benefit
of the people and the health policy makers thus possesses a moral obligation towards the
public (Marmot, 2012). It is the health care ethics, focusing on the design and the
implementation of the different measures to monitor and improve the health care of the