HSCS 4411 Health Policy, Law, and Issues

Focus is on the politics, laws and economics related to the delivery of health care. Issues such as managed care competition and legislation, barrier to and benefits of integration, the role of government in medical care and national health insurance, the increase in medical expenditures, prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical industry.

Credits

3

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: fall — Online: summer

Student Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes:

Students will describe the policymaking process and the legal system that underpin individual (private) and public health care systems.

Students will describe and analyze the fundamental problems and contemporary issues in health policy and law and apply an understanding of economics and financial systems to generate possible solutions.

Students will describe federal health insurance programs and their connection to access to health care, the uninsured, and health reform.

Students will identify the basic legal concepts that underlie the public and private health care systems, including the legal rights and responsibilities of various stakeholders in the health care system and the extensive and complex role played by federal and state law in the protection of the public’s health.

Students will examine public health preparedness policy to determine its strengths and weaknesses.

Students will use systematic reasoning skills to discuss contemporary issues and devise potential policy and/or societal solutions.

Students will write a concise and effective policy analysis.