examine how health care reforms are impacting the markets for health insurance

explore a few aspects of the 2,200 page health care law and use economic logic to forecast what the outcome of that law ought to be and then look at empirical data to see if your forecast has come to pass. If your logic is solid and the empirical data reinforce the logic, economic tools are doing what they are supposed to do. If your logic is solid, but the empirical data differs from what you have predicted, you can examine your model to see what variables you may have missed that would lead to data different than what you predicted.

As with any paper that follows a scientific model, your paper should follow the following format:
try to examine how health care reforms are impacting the markets for health insurance
I. Introduction – explain what phenomenon interests you and explain how economic science will shed light on the problem of concern to you. This is your hypothesis.

II. Explain the methods you will apply to the data to gain understanding about what the data might be telling you.

III. Collect the data and organize it.

IV. Analyze the data.

V. Explain what the data is telling you and explain where this conclusion might lead you as you explore questions in the future.