prepare, be sure to choose a person that is clearly involved in policy making who you believe can have a genuine impact on the coverage of these services. Bladder Cancer Screening Obesity in Adults, Screening and Counseling Sickle Cell in Newborns Screening In addition to sending your letter, respond to the questions below to provide a description of your process of creating and sending of the letter. Also, be sure to demonstrate what you have learned about how non-governmental officials and interest groups can inform the lawmaking process and demonstrate that you have applied it to your advocacy. By Day 7 of Week 4 Submit your assignment, including each of the following: Provide the name and address of the person to whom the letter was sent and explain why you chose this person and this population for your advocacy. In your explanation, describe what impact you believe this person may have on what you are advocating for. Describe how the letter you sent could work in conjunction with other advocacy efforts to promote coverage of these clinical preventive services. In your response, explain what other advocacy options might work, and support your answer. Attach the letter that you sent. Your letter must be business formal, including the date, the correct and complete address of the legislator, and your signature at the bottom. Assignment 2 can be completed in only 3 - 4 pages: one page to address the first two bullet points (in the instructions in BlackBoard), one to two pages for the letter itself and a page for your references. (The letter itself should not have in text citations.) IMPORTANT TIP: As you do your reading/research, you may find that some or all of these services are already required by the Affordable Care Act to be covered by health insurance (except for those for which there was insufficient evidence to support coverage). If so, I’m sure you realize that the letter should not be requesting that their coverage be mandated – since it already is. Instead your letter might advocate for ongoing support for the ACA and its provisions regarding the preventive services, or it might advocate for policies from the state that would support these services (e.g., linkage to services, etc.). Or the letter might be directed toward a specific policy maker who opposes the ACA -- in an effort to change his/her mind by highlighting the benefits of the mandated coverage of particular preventive services for certain populations.
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