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Federal health policy is when the federal government enacts health policies at the highest level. The federal government is made up of three branches legislative, executive, and judicial. At the top is congress, the highest power, then the president, and then the court system. The three stages of policy making are formulation, implantation, and modification (Leiyu, 2019). At the beginning of the process is finding the problem target. This target is where policymakers will spend their time analyzing the issues. Once the target is established and the bill is sent to congress the bill goes through a process to get approved, once approved it goes to the president to sign and then enters the next process (Leiyu, 2019).

Implementation is when the newly enacted law is set to the health and human services department. They administer it to the needed agencies in order to enact the policies. If any of these policies need to be looked into further this is where modification happens (Leiyu, 2019). After implementing the new legislation that is when it can be determined how effective it is. Even though the new law has been scrutinized and gone through a very thorough process, it is hard to determine any shortcomings until it is actually being utilized. Then those issues, whether caught but the HHS or by the public can be corrected and modified (Leiyu, 2019).

Another reason that passed legislation needs to be modified is that health concerns change over time. For example, mental health has come to the forefront of health in more recent years. In 1996 it was introduced into legislation to reduce the yearly and lifetime dollar limits for services involving mental health treatment benefits. However, as the law itself was trying to help improve the access to mental health it clearly needed modifications because it didn't stop those health insurance companies from enacting other limits. That created issues when it came to making mental health access accessible. It wasn't until more modifications were put in place did the original law begin to benefit those seeking mental health treatment (Harris, Carpenter, Bao, 2006).