Title: Definition of Health Care Policy | Healthfully
Headings: Definition of Health Care Policy
Definition of Health Care Policy
Background
Federal Policy
State Policy
Local Policy
Emergency Coordination

Content: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sets policy for these two major programs. The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring the safety of drugs. The National Institutes of Health oversees health care research ranging from mental health to AIDS to alternative medicine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitors collects data on health and investigates outbreaks of illness. Concerns about the growing numbers of uninsured, the high costs of health care, and reports by the Institute of Medicine, among others, on health care quality, led to passage in 2010 of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA. The PPACA is designed to reconfigure health care policy to improve access to health insurance, to rein in health care costs and to improve health care quality. Many federal agencies have health care policy responsibilities. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sets policy for these two major programs. State Policy
States are involved with health care policy many ways. Jointly with the federal government, states administer Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.