Monheit, Alan C., Wilson, Renate et alia editors. Informing American Health Care Policy. Inc. Publishers, 1999. The US health care system is once again in crisis. This statement has been made many times before, but the sudden upsurge of the population of elderly, the increasing dependence on ever more costly drugs and the imminent failure of many of yesterday's innovations, make it seem that changes perhaps more dramatic than any in the past may be imminent.
Health policy is daily front page news.
Yet the nature of the issues and the means to understand and work with them is very much still controversial. This course must therefore work with health policy in a multidisciplinary way. This being an election year, the political process and especially the health care platforms of the contending parties will take center stage. Objectives Many university courses rely on a relatively constant body of information which presented by the instructor and reacted to by the students. Be able to track the popularity and public reactions to these platforms Be able to provide additional proposals to enhance these political platforms.