Explain the pros and cons of the proposed health policy from the perspective of the patient family or community and its role in reducing the cost for health care insurers. 

Explain the pros and cons of the proposed health policy from the perspective of the patient, family, or community and its role in reducing the cost for health care insurers.

Pros

The Washington Indian health care improvement Act will ensure the American Indians and the Alaska natives can attain access to high health care status. This will be done by provision of the needed resources in order to meet the health needs. This is a good move to raise the health of the American Indians and Alaska natives to be within the thresholds of the Healthy people 2020 initiative. It will ensure that the target community is able to maximumly participate in the provision of health care services. It holds health care practitioners more accountable to the needs of this population in meeting their health care needs and desires (Empey, Garcia, & Bell, 2021). Statistics from the northwest tribal epidemiology center and the health department show there is high health disparities and excess rate comparing the American Indians and Alaska natives to the rest of the American population.

This exposes these communities to cases of suicide, premature mortality, chronic diseases, injuries, and poor mental health among others. The introduction of this Act will fight the existing health care disparities and do away with the existing historical trauma and increase the health status of this population. Patients and families will be able to access funds from the federal government to support their Medicaid programs if they meet the regulatory requirements (Empey, Garcia, & Bell, 2021). This will ensure that the American Indians and Alaska natives can access quality health care as well as allied health care services.

Cons

The enactment of this policy can fail to meet the needs of all the American Indian and Alaska natives because of the regulatory requirements (Kruse, et.al. 2022). There are members of this population in need of these services but cannot meet the threshold regulatory requirement meaning they will be sidelined in accessing quality health care services.