Lobbying and advocating are roles a person can take to influence or change decisions concerning an issue affecting their personal or professional life. An advocate and lobbyist have similar but different functions that are important in bringing change to an area of interest. This discussion post will discuss the similarities, the differences, and how my selected organization acts in their role to alter health care policies.
A lobbyist helps groups of citizens, organizations, or corporations’ to steer public policy in a manner that supports or changes public policy that aligns with the best interest of their group (Bernhagen, 2013). The lobbyist uses their political experience to influence the decisions of lawmakers about impending laws or policy changes affecting specific groups or organizations. Unlike a lobbyist, a political advocate is unpaid, inexperienced with the inner workings of the political system, and will provide pertinent information to elected officials to how a law or policy change will impact professions and the daily lives of real people (Mason, Garner, Hopkins Outlaw, & O’Grady, 2016). A lobbyist and a political advocate have a similar goal to achieve a change to a particular
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Most organizations act as both advocates and lobbyists to ensure that their organizational beliefs, missions, and goals are met while achieving optimal care for their members. Provided superior patient care in a safe manner will be accomplished by setting standards and structured goals and The Joint Commission (TJC) is recognized as an organization that inspires health care facilities to meet these goals. The TJC advocates to continually improving the health care of the public while lobbying organizations to meet accreditation standards that provide the safest, highest quality, and best-value health care (The Joint Commission,
Essentially, interest groups use many different tactics to accomplish their central goals but this paper will detail 2 of them. The first being lobbying, which is the act of persuading businesses as well as government leaders to help a specific organization by changing laws or creating events in favor of that group. Interest groups use this technique by hiring someone to represent them and advocate their cause to on the behalf of the entire group. These hired representatives usually have more than enough experience within the political field and are able to persuade connections within the government for help with their concerns. This method gets a lot of criticism because although lobbyist offer their input to government officials on pending laws, they only look at what is favorable for their cause. When trying to make a difference you have to not only reflect on your argument but on the side affects of that argument as
Interest groups, lobbyists, large corporations, and PACs try to influence the congressional committees' bills so they can have a say in the legislative process. When an interest group hears about a bill that is being debated on in a committee, they try to influence a members vote and they try to get a part of the bill changed. For example, a lobbyist came to me on a bill I proposed on making health care plans have no minimum requirement on benefits the company gives to its patients. He told me about how he did not get the right treatments and tests done on diseases he has and now is suffering badly from them. It was because the health plan did not have to give him anything extra. He changed my mind on the bill, and I changed the bill to setting a minimum standard on benefits given to patients.
Lobbyists and the Legislative Process. Word Count: 1,638 words. Table of Contents Part A: The Plan of Investigation 3.
The standards of the Joint Commission are a foundation for an objective evaluation process the may help healthcare organizations measure, assess and improve performance. These standards are focused on organizational functions that are key for providing safe high quality care services. The Joint Commission’s standards set goal expectations of reasonable, achievable and surveyable performance of an organization. Only new standards that are relative to patient safety or care quality, have positive impact on healthcare outcomes, and can be accurately measured are added. Input from healthcare professionals, providers, experts, consumers and government agencies develop these standards.
Interest groups going to the legislature trying to bring awareness to their group is called lobbying. Lobbyists try to influence officials working in all three branches and in the federal bureaucracy. The legislative branch has the most interaction with lobbyist considering the congress and the senate can change and create laws that effect each interest group. Interest groups spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to lobby members of Congress on a range of issues. The Executive branch of government deals with interests groups in the main way of dealing with the masses.
Young Goodman Brown is a story written by a well known Dark Romanticism writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne is known for his unique symbolism and dark writing.Part of Nathaniel Hawthorne's influence in writing Dark Romanticism is Hawthorns embarrassment of his family and the ways of his ancestor.While on one's journey towards faith and religion, they have to face it themselves and understand what they are doing. In Young Goodman Brown there was many symbolisms including Goodman Brown's wife, the snake staff,the forest and Faiths pink ribbon
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Legislative Process and Healthcare Lobbying in the United States of America. Before a law is passed and implemented in America under both state and federal level, it has to go often time through a very lengthy legislative process except in the case of an executive order. And, without the skills and expertise of the lobbying strategies, the idea which might intended to become law may not even make it to the level of a bill not to mention the chance of it to become law. It is important for us as nurses, to understand the legislative process and become very familiar with the lobbying process and take early and prompt action to defend our interests and help prevent any negative impact that any idea or bill that may become law may have on the nursing profession.
Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines an advocate as “one that pleads the cause of another,” or “one that supports or promotes the interest of another” (2014). Bu and Jezewski expanded on this by developing a mid-range theory of patient advocacy to implement into nursing (2007). They describe a patient as being “vulnerable and powerless” when stricken with illness and without knowledge of health care systems (Bu & Jezewski, 2007). The goal of the theory was to give the patient a voice in circumstances where they weren’t able to speak up for themselves and to maintain the patient’s integrity (Bu & Jezewski, 2007). They found three core attributes to what would make up
Lobbyists advocate on behalf of the group's interests. Lobbying can be done directly or indirectly, and can be aimed at any branch or level of government. Generally, lobbyists contact members of Congress to give them information about their cause. They give details about the effects of legislation they wish to pass or enforce. Lobbyists must present the information in the most factual way possible, while trying to convince the legislator of their point of view. The information given cannot be misleading as a lobbyist wants to keep a level of confidence with the politician. Among the information given, a lobbyist must include not only basic information about the issue but also why their position is best. They must tell why and how taking their position will benefit the legislator. Lobbyists must give the politicians political cues, telling them what they have at stake and how the issue relates to their other known inter...
The “advocacy explosion” in the United States in the 20th century has been caused by the extreme increase in the number of interest groups in the United States. The general public views the increase and the groups themselves as a cancer that has come to the body of American politics and is spreading. The explosion in the number of interest groups and interest group members and finances has had an effect on the decline of the American political party and partisanship, the effect on democracy and the public interest, and the bias that has come with interest group competition.
Lobbying is an enormous business. A lobbyist is an advocate who seek outs to influence members of the government (like members of Congress) to endorse legislation that would advantage their group. The lobbying occupation is a lawful and essential part of our democratic political procedure that is not extremely well implicit by the broad population. While the majority people think of lobbyists only as paid experts, there are as well a lot of volunteer lobbyists. Anyone who appeals the government or contacts their member of Congress to say an view is functioning as a lobbyist. Lobbying is a synchronized industry and a guarded activity beneath the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that assurances rights to free assembly, speech,and petition. [Briggs, Emily Edson]
The Joint Commission was founded in 1951 with the goal to provided safer and better care to all. Since that day it has become acknowledged as the leader in developing the highest standards for quality and safety in the delivery of health care, and evaluating organization performance (The Joint Commission(a) [TJC], 2014). The Joint Commission continues to investigate ways to better patient care. In 2003 the first set of National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) went into effect. This list of goals was designed by a group of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, risk managers, clinical engineers, and other professionals with hands-on experience in addressing patient safety issues in a wide variety of healthcare settings (TJC(b), 2014). The NPSGs were created to address specific areas of concern in patient safety in all health care settings.
...k for big business, a private individual, or even the public. The goals and strategies are the same for all lobbyist. Foremost, they must be very good at the art of persuasion, the mainstay of their job. They figure out how to sway politicians to vote on legislation in a way that favors the interest they represent. In our American democracy, people that are not elected representatives shape the laws of our country. If we continue down this path, our democracy will also one day be extinct. We need to get back to the roots of democracy and remember what the true meaning is. Power to the People!
Most people think that lobbying is really only for professional lobbyists but in reality absolutely anyone can lobby. Lobbying is a great way to get out your opinion and influence your legislators as they are supposed to be representing you, something they can’t do if they don’t know how the people they are representing feel. Whether it is calling your legislator, writing a letter, or talking to them in person your opinion can and will help the legislator to make a decision on the issue. Lobbying also helps people to learn about the legislative process and become more civically involved. It is an important experience that I believe every person should experience in order to really understand the inner workings of our country and it’s legislature.
Sorting out these issues can pose ethical challenges. There are numerous regulations governing the practice of lobbying, often ones requiring