The document outlines a structured agenda comparison grid for analyzing and documenting presidential agendas related to population health issues, specifically focusing on depression among the youth. It describes the historical context of healthcare legislation, the administrative approaches of current and past presidents, and the financial allocations toward mental health services. The document emphasizes the role of healthcare professionals in shaping policy and the necessity for ongoing political attention to healthcare challenges.

1. Agenda Comparison Grid Template
Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief
Assignment Template for Part 1 and Part 2
Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid
Use this Agenda Comparison Grid to document information
about the population health/healthcare issue your selected and
the presidential agendas. By completing this grid, you will
develop a more in depth understanding of your selected issue
and how you might position it politically based on the
presidential agendas.
You will use the information in the Part 1: Agenda Comparison
Grid to complete the remaining Part 2 and Part 3 of your
Assignment.
Identify the Population Health concern you selected.
Mental Health Issue (Depression)
Describe the Population Health concern you selected and the
factors that contribute to it.
Depression is the foremost cause leading young population to
death in the USA. According to Cockerham, depression is a
mental disorder, which is caused by psychological, persistent
social and biological pain. This leads to disinterest of social life
and committing suicide. Yet, if depression is not treated, it may
lead to dementia, stroke and heart attack. In the past six to ten

2. years, researchers such as Disease Control and Prevention found
that youngsters at the age of 18 to 24 years, experience
depression and going through suicidal thoughts. Unlike citizens
45 to 65 years of age, reports have reported that deaths among
these particular group have been significantly rising. Mental
health illnesses have brought many US presidents attention,
which most of them have taken various steps allowing easy
access to treatments and medicines.
Administration (President Name)
(Current President)
Donald Trump
(Previous President)
Barack Obama
(Previous President)
George W. Bush
Describe the administrative agenda focus related to this issue
for the current and two previous presidents.
- To renovate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
president Donald Trump came up with a different strategy, a
new healthcare bill.
- Diminishing the amount of Medicaid is one of the undertaken
steps of Donald Trump’s administration. This way, insurance
plan will only cover substance use and mental issues meanwhile
majority of them depend on low income.
- Obama signed an act, the Patient Protection and Affordable

3. Care Act. It is also known to be Obamacare, allowing the
extension of federal mental parity to Medicaid.
- The purpose of the act is to support people with mental
illnesses and people who are disable. In 2010, president Obama
signed the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act.
- In 2002, George W Bush shaped a commission, which
involved experts in the mental health field.
- President George W Bush wanted to bring the anguishes
undergone by mentally ill citizens to an end. President George
W Bush signed the Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and
Addictions Equity Act in 2008. An all-inclusive law that covers
health insurance. The act states the treatment of drug abuse and
other health conditions.
- In 2003, W. Bush signed the Medicare Modernization Act. He
also supported the formation of health savings accounts.
Patients who have metal health can also access the savings
scheme.
Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the
current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.
- Funds provision to mental health and abuse services has been
reduced by $600 million in the economic year 2019. To the
erection of new healthcare system, President Donald Trump
proposed a provision of $500 million.

4. - Obama proposed $500 million in 2008/2009. The money was
to be used to increase Americans mental health medication and
care. Early identification permits doctors to prompt treatment
for mentally ill citizens. Therefore, President Obama defied
agencies to post additional data to check citizen’s background.
None
Explain how each of the presidential administrations
approached the issue.
- Regardless of the funds that have been planned for the new
healthcare plan, Trump’s management happened to fail. The
consideration of low-income earners depends on ACA and
Medicaid. So the American Heal Care Act will not identify the
Act compelling Medicaid.
- President Obama came up with a healthcare plan that helped to
rationalize the healthcare subdivision. The way it is done is by
identifying the need for efficient use and that is deliberating all
the Americans.
- With President W. Bush’s management, it actually made a
great breakthrough undertaking mental health and healthcare
issues. Through Medicaid, the government was able to access to
healthcare to low-income earners.

5. Which administrative agency would most likely be responsible
for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperates on
creating the expertise, tools, and information allowing people
and communities insure their health through health promotion,
preventing diseases, injury, disability, alertness for new health
threats.
How does the healthcare issue get on the agenda and how does
it stay there?
Across the globe, there is a growing number of diseases being
reported everyday. The need for healthcare wellbeing and
planning must be recognized by political leaders. Many
Americans are being affected by this matter, therefore the
administrations must make these health issues part of their
agenda. Healthcare issues can be deliberated through legislation
and become part of the government’s agenda. With that said,
leaders must come up with new ideas on how to reduce and
accommodate medical bills that are paid by their people. The
healthcare will stay on the agenda until a solution is made.
Who was the entrepreneur/champion/sponsor of the healthcare
issue you selected?
- John F. Kennedy

6. References
Alexander, L. M., Keahey, D., & Dixon, K. (2018). Opioid use
disorder: A public health emergency. Journal of the American
Academy of PAs, 31(10), 47-52.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Retrieved
from https://www.cdc.gov/
Cockerham, W. C. (2016). Sociology of mental disorder. Taylor
& Francis. Heller, B. D. (2016). Revolutionizing the Mental
Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. Seton Hall L.
Rev., 47, 569. Thompson, F. J., Gusmano, M. K., & Shinohara,
S. (2018). Trump and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional
Repeal Efforts, Executive Federalism, and Program
Durability. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 48(3), 396-424.
Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or
Talking Points Brief
It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of
debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember.
Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only
in recent times but as far back as the administration of the
second U.S. president, John Adams. In 1798, Adams signed
legislation requiring that 20 cents per month of a sailor’s
paycheck be set aside for covering their medical bills. This
represented the first major piece of U.S. healthcare legislation,
and the topic of healthcare has been woven into presidential

7. agendas and political debate ever since.
As a healthcare professional, you may be called upon to provide
expertise, guidance and/or opinions on healthcare matters as
they are debated for inclusion into new policy. You may also be
involved in planning new organizational policy and responses to
changes in legislation. For all of these reasons you should be
prepared to speak to national healthcare issues making the
news.
In this Assignment, you will analyze recent presidential
healthcare agendas. You also will prepare a fact sheet to
communicate the importance of a healthcare issue and the
impact on this issue of recent or proposed policy.
The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Comparison Grid, 1-Page
Analysis, and 1-page Fact Sheet)
Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid
Use the Agenda Comparison Grid Template found in the
Learning Resources and complete the Part 1: Agenda
Comparison Grid based on the current/sitting U.S. president and
the two previous presidential administrations and their agendas
related to the public health concern you selected. Be sure to
address the following:
· Identify and provide a brief description of the population
health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.
· Describe the administrative agenda focus related to the issue
you selected.
· Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that
the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.
· Explain how each of the presidential administrations
approached the issue.
(A draft of Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid should be posted to
the Module 1 Discussion Board by Day 3 of Week 1.)
Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis
Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda

8. Comparison Grid on the template, complete the Part 2: Agenda
Comparison Grid Analysis portion of the template, by
addressing the following:
· Which administrative agency would most likely be responsible
for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected?
· How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on
the agenda for the current and two previous presidents? How
does it stay there?
· Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/
champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue you selected for the
current and two previous presidents?
Part 3: Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief (THIS PART IS
NEEDED)
Based on the feedback that you received from your colleagues
in the Discussion, revise Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid and
Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis.
Then, using the information recorded on the template in Parts 1
and 2, develop a 1-page Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief that
you could use to communicate with a policymaker/legislator or
a member of their staff for this healthcare issue. You can use
Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to create your Fact Sheet or
Talking Point Brief. Be sure to address the following:
· Summarize why this healthcare issue is important and should
be included in the agenda for legislation.
· Justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare
issues.