How can health policies be used as allocative or regulatory tools?

The supporting rational references are to be in APA format both in the body and noting the completed references at the end of the post. You need at least one reference from the literature and a reference from the module to support your post to count as acceptable. As graduate students you are lending depth and breath through noting the evidence in published work. Please do not reference a web site; you need to get into the published body of knowledge to support your work. Recommended readings from Module • To correspond to a documentary titled “Sick Around the World” (an assignment in the Government Programs module), PBS Frontline broadcast “Sick Around America.” Explore the program’s website and consider what several people interviewed, including a Harvard physician, said about who has responsibility for cost containment. Then consider why other nations are able to achieve universal coverage, while the US has not. o http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundamerica/ • An interesting poll about the influence of nurses on health policy • Become familiar with the Journal of Health Affairs, a leading health policy journal. http://www.healthaffairs.org