This course explores the many legal issues in genetics, including reproduction, access to health care, discrimination, forensics, and gene therapy. This course presents a broad overview of the development and implementation of health care finance and policy in the United States. It focuses on the impact of policy initiatives on the structure, operations, and financing of health care systems. Topics include the Medicare and Medicaid programs, health care finance reforms, the evolution and operation of integrated delivery systems, and the business transactions of health care entities. American society is aging, with the proportion of the population aged 65 or older growing at a rapid pace.
Older persons tend to consume health care services at higher rates.
Health Care Rationing Cr. This special intersession course will be offered during January 1999. The course will consider legal and policy aspects of health care rationing in different settings, including legislative rationing, regulatory rationing, managed care rationing, and 'bedside' rationing. Health Law Cr. The introductory survey course for those interested in the health care field.