The paper should be about four to six pages — not counting any title  page, abstract, or your references. You may choose to provide “a fix”  for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as the  ACA or Obamacare), or you may propose a general replacement for the ACA.

You should likely focus on one or two broad policies (due to the  short length of the paper). You may look at what others have proposed  and incorporate their thoughts into your writing with appropriate  attribution and citation.

Do not paraphrase or quote any other work (including your own from  other classes) without appropriate attribution. Your paper will be  submitted to a plagiarism checker. Plagiarism is grounds for failing  this assignment and, depending on the severity, of failing the course.  If you paraphrase or quote any other work — from the internet, from  another paper, from any other source, you must properly provide  quotation marks (if a quote) and citations to the source that I can  find. Use APA style for your citations.

You should have at least four sections:

An Introduction – explaining what you are proposing  in general terms which should include identifying the problem you are  attempting to address with your fix or replacement.

Your Proposal – this is the details of your proposal – although, in 4 to 6 pages, you likely can’t be as detailed as you would like to be.

Difficulties you see in getting your proposal through the  policymaking process as we have discussed it in this class and as it is  outlined in the textbook.

• A Conclusion – don’t just leave me hanging. Tie  everything together here and tell me again why you feel your proposal is  worthwhile and what the difficulties might be.