Please answer the following homework questions:

1. What are the key policy issues related to hospital closure. Find a news article or report illustrating recent issues related to how the ACA reform or the COVID-19 pandemic affected hospital closure (or financial performance in a broader sense).

2. Explain what ACA Expansion waivers are. Then choose a state that applied for a section 1115 waiver and got approval from the federal government. (Use the following link: https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-waiver-tracker-approved-and-pending-section-1115-waivers-by-state/) Explain why this state may have decided to apply for the waiver.

3. The U.S. Supreme Court addressed issues with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through the case National Federation of Independent Business, et al., v. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Choose one of the issues addressed by the Court and explain briefly (a) what the issue is and why it was contested (b) the decision of the Court (c) the consequences of this decision as it relates to the cost-equity-health triangle.