Prerequisite: none
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Offered
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Fundamentals of American Health Law provides a solid grounding in the:
- Financing and organization of health care delivery in the United States
- Legal and public policy issues raised by the current structure of health care delivery, and their implications for health care reform
The course will begin with:
- A historical overview of the American health care system
- The identification of the various stakeholders in the health care arena
- A discussion of how health care is currently financed, accessed, and delivered
We will then focus on the financing of health care, including:
- Review of the major payers
- Private health insurance
- Self-insured health plans
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- The necessity for and breadth of regulation and reimbursement of heath care providers, including:
- Hospitals
- Physicians
- Medical equipment suppliers
- Other individual traditional providers
- Providers of alternative medicine
We will then consider:
- Health care reform options
- Underlying policy considerations
- Political obstacles to health care reform
This will include a discussion of prior efforts to reform health care, and their successes and failures.
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3
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