To Prepare: · Review the Congress website provided in the Resources and identify one recent (within the past 5 years) proposed health policy. · Review the health policy you identified and reflect on the background and development of this health policy. Post a description of the health policy you selected and a brief background for the problem or issue being addressed. Explain whether you believe there is an evidence base to support the proposed policy and explain why. Be specific and provide examples. APA format and 3 references Then respond to a peer with 2 references Peer 1 The healthcare policy I chose is S. 3098, S.3098 -is the Preventive Care Awareness Act of 2021.  S. 3098 will provide national public health information and focus on people in a lower income bracket who have forgone services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This bill would also create a task force to promote preventative care and development programs in rural and underserved populations. Its primary focus is teaching low-income Americans the benefits of preventive healthcare. This bill is in committee and has bipartisan support (Bell et al., 2017).  Reading this proposed bill, I asked myself whether it is lower-income Americans who have forgone preventative treatment during COVID or Americans in general. Preventive screenings have long been advocated as one of the most valuable ways to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment of disease. Cancer screenings have helped lower the US cervical cancer death rate by 50% in the last three decades (2022).  According to the American Medical Association, more than 40% of Americans surveyed stopped preventative medical care as covid-19 began (Timothy M. Smith, Senior News Writer, 2020).  This number included Americans of all economic levels. I believe no proof was found that only lower-income Americans skipped screenings during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.   According to the Joint Commission, patients with lower health literacy did not see the importance of preventative care during COVID-19 (The Joint Commission, 2022). I believe there is evidence-based support for increasing education for all Americans regarding the importance of preventive health screenings, And indeed more teaching to Americans with a lower understanding of their health. This bill was given only a 3% chance of passing into law. I believe that is partly because it only attempts to reach lower-income populations and not all Americans.  50 words minimum each response R1 I had a hard time with this question. I'd like to believe that all, if not most, health care providers have very high empathy, which would cause them to be sensitive toward patients. However, many different people with different personalities become health providers, and laws and regulations provide boundaries for most people. I believe if left alone, healthcare professionals and other professionals would choose what is most convenient for them and not what is best for the patie ...

1. To Prepare:
· Review the Congress website provided in the Resources and
identify one recent (within the past 5 years) proposed health
policy.
· Review the health policy you identified and reflect on the
background and development of this health policy.
Post a description of the health policy you selected and a brief
background for the problem or issue being addressed. Explain
whether you believe there is an evidence base to support the
proposed policy and explain why. Be specific and provide
examples.
APA format and 3 references
Then respond to a peer with 2 references
Peer 1
The healthcare policy I chose is S. 3098, S.3098 -is the
Preventive Care Awareness Act of 2021.
S. 3098 will provide national
public health information and focus on people in a lower income
bracket who have forgone services during the COVID-19
pandemic. This bill would also create a task force
to promote preventative care and development programs in
rural and underserved populations. Its primary focus
is teaching low-income Americans the benefits
of preventive healthcare.

2. This bill is in committee and has bipartisan support (Bell et al.,
2017).
Reading this proposed bill, I asked myself whether it is lower-
income Americans
who have forgone preventative treatment during COVID or
Americans in
general. Preventive screenings have long been advocated as one
of the most valuable ways to facilitate early diagnosis and
treatment of disease. Cancer screenings have helped lower the U
S cervical cancer death rate by 50% in the last three decades
(2022).
According to the American Medical Association, more than 40%
of Americans surveyed stopped preventative medical care as
covid-19 began (Timothy M. Smith, Senior News Writer,
2020). This number included Americans of all economic levels.
I believe no proof was found that only lower-income Americans
skipped screenings during the height of the COVID-19
pandemic.
According to the Joint Commission, patients with lower health
literacy did not see the importance of preventative care during
COVID-19 (The Joint Commission, 2022). I believe there is
evidence-based support for increasing education for all
Americans regarding the importance of preventive health
screenings, And indeed more teaching to Americans with a
lower understanding of their health. This bill was given only a
3% chance of passing into law. I believe that is partly because it
only attempts to reach lower-income populations and not all
Americans.
50 words minimum each response
R1
I had a hard time with this question. I'd like to believe that all,
if not most, health care providers have very high empathy,
which would cause them to be sensitive toward patients.

3. However, many different people with different personalities
become health providers, and laws and regulations provide
boundaries for most people. I believe if left alone, healthcare
professionals and other professionals would choose what is most
convenient for them and not what is best for the patient. Rules
like the "5 rights of medication" and HIPPA hold health
providers to a standard that protects patients.
Thinking about laws and regulations, how would the events that
led to the discovery and experimentation with HeLa cells have
been different if they occurred today?
Today, the discovery of HeLa cells would have been very
different. Current laws and regulations would prevent doctors
from taking and/or sharing a patient's cell samples without
consent. In the case of Henrietta Lacks, where the doctors did
not receive permission before her death, they would have to
request approval from her family.
R2
It is my opinion that laws and regulations protect patients in
some instances; however, in the end it is truly up to the health
professionals to execute this protection either way. Consider
rules and regulations in any circumstance. Rules and regulations
are present in almost everywhere; however, if they are not
followed it is as if they do not exist. Likewise, if the rules or
regulations are not in favor of the consumer or patient, it is up
to the professional to make the decision to do what they feel is
right no matter the consequence. According to "National
Institutes of Health" (2022), HeLa cells were deemed
“immortal”, and have played a major role in the research of
terminal illnesses. Today, it is hard to say how people would
react to such information, or if this information would even be
made public knowledge if it began in this day and age with all
of the discrepancies of what is considered a human right.
According to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
(2022), a medical professional left a message on the voicemail
of a patient’s daughter providing diagnosis and treatment
information (para. Hospital Implements New Minimum

4. Necessary Polices for Telephone Messages). While the average
person may or may not think anything of it, there are way too
many issues with what she did. The biggest is the possibility of
the message being left on the wrong person’s phone, or was
retrieved by the wrong person. No matter what, the information
should be provided to the individual directly as voicemail is not
the way to find out any type of medical information, especially
when it’s negative. Taking the initiative to continue to make
contact with the individual is better than risking sensitive
information.
References
National Institutes of Health. (2022). Significant Research
Advances Enabled by HeLa Cells.
https://osp.od.nih.gov/scientific-sharing/hela-cells-timeline/.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2022). Health
Information Privacy: All Case Examples.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-
enforcement/examples/all-cases/index.html.
R3
I would say that laws and regulations do protect patients to a
certain extent because, sometimes I have seen where the
regulations have helped patients get the proper care or treatment
that they need. The laws have protected patients as well by
making sure that the patients are treated fairly when it comes to
patient confidentiality. But on the other hand I have seen where
the regulations were in place at a facility, but the residents were
not treated as they should be by the staff. The owners did not do
anything about this situation and just let these types of
behaviors slide. So, for me I would lean more towards that they
do help protect patients if all parties involved are willing to
actually follow the laws and regulations. Health care
professionals have also been involved in protecting patients
because, when health care professionals and patients are
working close together there becomes a bond of trust and health
care professionals take an oath to always protect their patients.
With the laws and regulation today, they would have to follow

5. more intense protocols and have supervisors that they would
have to answer to and report findings about the HeLa cells. The
situation would have been approached in a different manner and
the family would have been informed from start to finish which
would have helped them understand the situation better.
R4
When it comes to writing health care law, what role do you
think the health care industry plays and how does industry
influence benefit from the role that they play in laws such as
HIPAA and HITECH? Any thoughts?