Currently there coverage in the news regarding high-cost speciality drugs. Who is responsible for paying these high costs? Approximately 71 percent of the public say that new expensive drugs that are recommended by physicians should be covered by their health insurance and only 17 percent say that the individual needing the drug should pay for it themselves (DiJulio, Firth, & Brodie, 2015). People with serious diseases all around the United States are dwindling through the flaws of our nation's healthcare system. Many individuals are unable to afford medications that they are in need of even if they have good jobs and insurance. Patients with significant medical illnesses, such as HIV, hepatitis, cancer, lupus , multiple sclerosis, are paying
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Through choices of individuals, organizations, and interest groups the Advanced Nurse Practitioner can make a difference in policies. With eighty-five percent of uninsured adults either having delays or going without necessary medical care, forty-eight percent reporting having medical debt or having trouble paying their medical bills, and twenty nine million reporting to have depleted their life savings on medical costs in 2010, the need for Advanced Nurse Practitioner’s involvement has never been greater. In the legal process, Congress is the ones making the legal decisions with the bill (Stevens. 2015). Also, in Stevens (2015) powerpoint she states that there are “Ten Universal Commandments of Politics”. They consists of “ the personal is political, in politics, friends come and go but enemies accumulate, politics is the heart of the possible, be polite, be persistent, be persuasive, ignore your mother's instructions, talk to strangers, money is the mother’s milk of politics, negotiate visibility, politics has a “chit economy”, so keep track, reputations are permanent, and don’t let em get to you”. In the United States, the Congressional Leadership consists of Senate (upper house) and House of Representatives (lower house). The Senate has one hundred members, that includes two from each state. They serve six year terms, and one third of the total of members are up for election every two years. The House of Representatives have four hundred and thirty-five members, allocated every ten years, set up on population fluctuations. They serve two year terms, and are up for election every two years (Stevens, 2015 ). Appendix A contains Federal, State, and the author’s County District’s elected legislative officials with their contact information, as a future reference for advocacy
Through choices of individuals, organizations, and interest groups the Advanced Nurse Practitioner can make a difference in policies. With eighty-five percent of uninsured adults either having delays or going without necessary medical care, forty-eight percent reporting having medical debt or having trouble paying their medical bills, and twenty nine million reporting to have depleted their life savings on medical costs in 2010, the need for Advanced Nurse Practitioner’s involvement has never been greater. In the legal process, Congress is the ones making the legal decisions with the bill (Stevens. 2015). Also, in Stevens (2015) powerpoint she states that there are “Ten Universal Commandments of Politics”. They consists of “ the personal is political, in politics, friends come and go but enemies accumulate, politics is the heart of the possible, be polite, be persistent, be persuasive, ignore your mother's instructions, talk to strangers, money is the mother’s milk of politics, negotiate visibility, politics has a “chit economy”, so keep track, reputations are permanent, and don’t let em get to you”. In the United States, the Congressional Leadership consists of Senate (upper house) and House of Representatives (lower house). The Senate has one hundred members, that includes two from each state. They serve six year terms, and one third of the total of members are up for election every two years. The House of Representatives have four hundred and thirty-five members, allocated every ten years, set up on population fluctuations. They serve two year terms, and are up for election every two years (Stevens, 2015 ). Appendix A contains Federal, State, and the author’s County District’s elected legislative officials with their contact information, as a future reference for advocacy