Policies are constantly reviewed and considered to help improve thefederal, state, or local health care systems. Each one has the potentialto affect each of us on a daily basis, so careful consideration must begiven when policies are proposed. It is important to understand theprocess of how a topic eventually becomes a policy.Using the Affordable Care Act, write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on how it became a policy. In your paper, include the following information:State the objective of the policy.Define the formulation stage.Explain the process to formulate a policy and the involvement of stakeholders. Define the legislative stage.Explain the legislative body’s approval process needed to gainsupport (i.e., funding) for the policy and how stakeholders influencelegislators’ decisions.Define the implementation stage.Identify the accountable parties and their roles in the various implementation stages.Cite a minimum of 5 references.Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
