Please read the following instructions carefully and submit your
final paper here. This paper is due no later than the final day of the
course, Saturday of Week Four.
Assignment: Prepare and submit a white paper of
approximately 6-10 pages. It should follow APA formatting and style for
your citations to authority. Please refer to the Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL, if you aren’t familiar with this.
White Paper: White papers have become widely used in
business and government. Traditionally, white papers were topic-driven,
succinct explorations of an issue or problem with solutions proposed or
presented. For this assignment, you are asked to draft a white paper
addressing one of the following problems and proposing a solution or
solutions. If you would like more information about white papers in
general, please refer to the Purdue Online Writing Lab that has helpful tips.
Your paper should be concise and well-supported by citations to unbiased sources.
While it can have other sections, at a minimum please include the following sections in your white paper:
- Executive Summary – a summary of what your white paper is about (similar to an abstract).
- Background – a couple of paragraphs of background to set up your problem.
- Problem or Problems Presented – succinct explanation of the problem or problems addressed.
- Proposed Solution – concise proposal of solution or solutions (use subheadings here if possible).
- Conclusion – a clearly stated summary and conclusion outlining the proposed solution/course of action recommended.
- Works Cited – a complete list of all the outside authorities relied upon in your paper (use APA style).
Potential Topics:
- The U.S. spends approximately 18% of GDP on health care. What
economics-based changes could be implemented to attempt to lower this
percentage? - Identify at least three main reasons for high healthcare costs in the United States and provide solutions to lower costs.
- How can a healthcare organization increase its market power? Choose a
healthcare organization in your area or that you would be interested in
working for and analyze how that organization can gain or increase
market power. - If you are working in the healthcare field, what behavioral economic
concepts (or biases) from Chapter 18 do your organization need to be
aware of? What dangers are presented? How can they be addressed? - Discuss the problem of adverse selection if the U.S. is committed to
prohibiting insurers from refusing to insure individuals
with pre-existing conditions. How can this problem be addressed? - Discuss the economic implications of viewing healthcare as a “right”
versus viewing it as a commodity. Should healthcare be viewed by the
public and politicians in the U.S. as a right or a commodity? How do we
resolve this split? - If you are in the healthcare field, discuss the economic effects on
your organization if the U.S. were to adopt a single-payer health care
system. - Using concepts from behavioral economics, provide a proposed
solution to a common health problem in the United States (alcoholism,
obesity, opioid use, cancer). - Choose a topic of your own that presents a problem that can be
addressed by using solutions employing economic concepts. If you have a
problem that involves economics at work, feel free to use this. The more
practical the better!
You must present an issue and make an argument (this is not simply an
informational paper). You are arguing a position and attempting to
persuade your audience to your position using solid data and references.
This paper should be written on your own. All papers run through
Turnitin.com or a similar program to make sure that your work is
original. You should be able to see the Turnitin score after you submit
your paper. If it is above about 20% and you have un-cited sources, you
should be concerned. Submitting papers containing plagiarism is grounds
for receiving zero credit for the paper. Please do not copy sentences or
paragraphs from other works without proper quotation marks and
citations.
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