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Assignment: Healthcare Coverage Gap

The ACA was meant to provide quality health care coverage for all yet a coverage gap for some populations especially in states that oppose Medicaid expansion. Create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the coverage gap problem, who is impacted by the coverage gap, the role the ACA plays in the coverage gap, why the coverage gap should be closed, and solutions/ recommendations for closing the gap. Address the following in your PowerPoint:

• Select one state opposed to Medicaid expansion and describe why. Then, consider your own state. What are the benefits and drawbacks to Medicaid expansion in your state?

• Define what the coverage gap is (problem/issue)

• Discuss how the coverage gap impact low income healthcare consumers population.

• What role does the ACA have in widening or closing the coverage gap?

• Why is it important to close the gap (implications for positive social change)?

• What are some solutions to closing the coverage gap and how can healthcare equity help close the gap? Include recommendations and/or solutions.

Your PowerPoint presentation should include/address:

• Title Slide (1 slide)

• Objectives Slide (1 slide)

• Medicaid expansion (1-2 slides)

• Coverage gap - define/problem/issue (1-2 slides)

• Coverage gap impact on low income healthcare consumers (2-3 slides)

• Role ACA has in widening or closing the coverage gap (1-2 slides)

• Close the gap (1-2 slides)

• Solutions to closing the coverage gap and how can healthcare equity help close the gap? (2-3 slides)

• Reference slide (1-2 slides).

Assignment Expectations

Length: 10 -14 slides (in addition to the title slide and reference slides)

Structure Your presentation must include an objectives slide.  Be sure to fully explain all slides in the Speaker Notes.

References: A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources are required for this assignment

Learning Materials

• Nickitas, D. M., Middaugh, D. J., & Feeg, V. D. (2019). Policy and politics for nurses and other health professions: Advocacy and action. (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Read Chapter 7. 

Additional Resources:

• Garfield, R. (2016, October 19). The coverage gap: Uninsured poor adults in states that do not expand Medicaid. Kaiser Family Foundation. 

• Why Do We Need the Affordable Care Act? American Public Health Association.

• Seo, V., Baggett, T. P., Thorndike, A. N., Hull, P., Hsu, J., Newhouse, J. P., & Fung, V. (2019). Access to care among Medicaid and uninsured patients in community health centers after the Affordable Care Act. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), N.PAG.

• Vaughan Prengaman, M., Welle, D. L., Ridenour, N., & Mueller, K. J. (2018). Diverse stakeholder perspectives on rural health care reform in a U.S. state that rejected the Affordable Care Act: A case study. Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care, 18(2), 65–87. 

• Wasserman, J., Palmer, R. C., Gomez, M. M., Berzon, R., Ibrahim, S. A., & Ayanian, J. Z. (2019). Advancing health services research to eliminate health care disparities. American Journal of Public Health, 109, S64–S69.