Discussion 1. Discuss how health policy initiatives are used to guide and direct

Discussion 1. Discuss how health policy initiatives are used to guide and direct your clinical practice as an Advanced Practice Nurse. 2. Please locate the Medicaid eligibility criteria for 3 different states. Compare and contrast the eligibility criteria, then discuss the implications of the criteria for people in each state. Please make sure you are using scholarly references and they should not be older than 5 years. Your posts/references must be in APA format. Project Legislative Matrix For this assignment, you will develop a Legislative Matrix based upon the specific legislators in a residential/geographical legislative district in your state. You will identify elected six (6) officials from your legislative districts including: 1) local Councilpersons or County Commissioner, 2) Federal House of Representative, 3) Federal Senator, 4) State House of Representative, 5) State Senator, and 6) the Governor. You will identify the committees each legislator is a member of, and you will discuss any active legislation bills and/or past legislative initiatives he/she is involved individually. This information will be used to assist in the development of the Legislative Communication assignment next week.