Assignment Details

Imagine that you are the CEO of a large, metropolitan, multispecialty health care organization located in an urban city within the United States. The health care organization is for-profit and privately held. The demographics of the surrounding area include military personnel, educators, government employees, professionals, factory workers, and laborers. With the recent and proposed changes in health care regulations and the uncertainty surrounding federal law (e.g., the Affordable Care Act), the organization must cut costs and reduce the number of full-time personnel. The board has asked you to develop a bulleted Executive Summary of the key positions that must be retained within the organization and the positions that can be eliminated. Provide your opinion about how these personnel changes could impact quality and patient satisfaction.

Submit a Executive Summary for the board that provides a brief description of the health care organization, a list of applicable laws that must be considered if staff is to be reduced, and a list of both the positions that must be retained and those that may be eliminated.

Be sure to include the following:

• A brief description of the health care organization
• A list of applicable laws or regulations that must be considered
• Recommendations regarding which positions may be eliminated and which cannot be eliminated
• Opinion about how these personnel changes could impact quality and patient satisfaction
• At least 2 outside scholarly sources
• Provide a References page

Question 1:

According to John Locke, in your own words, what is freedom, what is liberty, how are liberty and freedom related, how are liberty and freedom different?

Question 2:

Based reading the U.S. Constitution, describe each of the following:

• One check or balance that the federal executive branch has on the federal legislative branch.

• One check or balance that the federal executive branch has on the federal judicial branch.

• One check or balance that the federal legislative branch has on the federal executive branch.

• One check or balance that the federal legislative branch has on the federal judicial branch.

• One check or balance that the federal judicial branch has on the executive branch.

• One check or balance that the federal judicial branch has on the federal legislative branch.

Be sure to cite what article and section that each check or balance is found in the U.S. Constitution.

Question 3:

Discuss the failures of the Article of Confederation that led to creation the the U.S. Constitution?

Question 4:

What is federalism?  Describe the balance of power between the federal government and state governments.  In your response you may want to discuss the supremacy clause, the 9th, 10th, and 14th amendments, as well as any relevant Supreme Court decisions.

Question 5:

What are the three branches of government?  Describe what each one does in your own words and in a few brief sentences.