Effective Policy Development: Key Considerations and Best Practices

POLICY BRIEF NEXT STEPS: Presented by Rachel Clohan

Main issues from factsheets Outlining a problem with no clear solutions Providing a solution without identifying a problem Not connecting the problem and the solution Lacking economic analysis Normative statements as motivation or stating assumptions without citation or reasoning

Economic analysis Not economics Economics This may reduce the supply of physicians because of increased costs Physicians/policy makers/lobbyists won t like it This has potential for adverse selection, moral hazards, or tragedy of the commons because ___ It might increase costs More people will be insured It may not be effective because it incentivizes physicians to misreport conditions in order to avoid the regulations

What does a good policy look like? Specific Policy Broad Goal Aims to fix one specific problem Aims to fix a general problem Is unambiguous and clear Could have multiple solutions States should expand Medicaid to cover anyone living within 175% of the federal poverty line States should help more people buy insurance

Questions from yall: Should we incorporate information from the factsheet into the final brief? Is the bibliography included in the page limit/ format/in-text citations? Graphs? What kind? Made yourself or from a source? Focus on graphs vs statistical method? Grading/expectations? Resources?

What is the best way to present information? Hospitalizations Hospitalizations Workers Sales 200 30 17% 17% 150 26% 26% 25 20 100 15 13% 13% 10 44% 44% 50 5 0 0 Emory Hospital UAB Hospital 2010 2011 2012 2013 Overdose Heart Attack Car Accident Pneumonia Nurses Doctors Staff Cars

What is the best way to present information? Nurses Nurses Doctors Doctors Staff Staff 70 50 Emory Hospital UAB Hospital 50 70 40 20 Potential policy Potential policy Creating study guide Re-writing notes Practicing problems Studying with classmates Grade Improvement Grade Improvement 15% 2% 12% 7%

Grading criteria/resources Please read the rubric! Examples 1 and 2 even these aren t perfect Canva, PowerPoint/Google Slides, Word/Google Docs, Adobe Illustrator The final product should include information from the factsheet/annotated bibliography

Nurses Nurses Doctors Doctors Staff Staff 70 50 This is the introduction This is the introduction This is a surprising/not commonly known statistic about the topic (citation 1). This is why we care about this topic (economic theory, cost, magnitude, externalities, etc) This is how the problem has changed/evolved that makes it important to address now (citation 2). Emory Hospital UAB Hospital 50 70 40 20 This is my policy solution This is my policy solution This is the outline of the specific policy I am recommending This is evidence supporting the policy (citation 5) This is a brief discussion of constraints, counterarguments, and barriers This is research as to why those might not hold in these circumstances (citation 2) This is the main content This is the main content These are bullet points providing background information and outlining the problem This is evidence found by a credible source (citation 3) This explains the graph to the left which is additional information from citation 3. This is the framing of how we could view that evidence This is an explanation of the table above (citation 4) This is the conclusion Hospitalizations Hospitalizations 17% 17% 26% 26% 13% 13% 44% 44% Overdose Heart Attack Car Accident Pneumonia References Citation 1 Citation 2 Citation 3 Citation 4 Citation 5