The Past, Current, and Future

Health policy reinforces decision-making and planning processes that aim explicitly at societal health improvement. Policy, if implemented meticulously, allows healthcare leaders to forecast based on financial, political, and societal trends. Policy also provides objectives and contingency plans to facilitate growth through definition and/or redefinition of the company’s mission and vision (McLaughlin & McLaughlin, 2014). In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following:

Apply the following process to the Affordable Care Act:

Policy Analysis Process of Evidence-Based Medicine

What are the defining characteristics of policy change? Provide a scholarly supported rationale with a minimum of two scholarly sources in APA style.