Health Law and Policy (Spring 2006)

This course provides a general introduction to health law, with attention to healthcare policy, politics and economics. Topics will include, among others, access to health care, patients' rights, the meaning and effects of “managed care”, the relationship of health care to public health, the financing and regulation of Medicare and Medicaid, and selected issues in bioethics. Treatment of these issues in foreign health care systems will be analyzed to provide perspective on American developments and patterns.