Health Care Reform, an MPA
Elective/Concentration Course
Monday's
6-10pm,
LIBRARY 3500 (NEW), 4 Credits
Accepting,
as space allows, special and upper division undergraduate
students.
This
course will
be taught by Joan Bantz,
Member
of the
Faculty, and Bill Hagens,
renowned
expert on health care and
past reform efforts. Both faculty have experienced multiple years
within key areas of health and health care, lending real life
persepctive to the issues surrounding a reform of the current
"accidental" system.
You
will have a rare opportunity to seminar
with current experts in the field, challenge directly current policies,
and develop advocay skills for advancing reform.
Course Description:
By
examining the historical and cultural context; ethical and equity
issues;
stakeholders; various political arenas and perspectives; economics;
comparative systems; impacts of regulations and economic tradeoffs;
technological change; prevention focus and the personal voices of
health and
health care we will develop a frame and focus for impacting future
health
care reform.
This
framing process will provide an understanding of health policy
development within the context of the American political system -- at
the
national and state levels, by focusing on timely health care issues in a
political framework, e.g., The Decline of "American" liberalism is
health
policy; and Markets, governments, and individuals: their appropriate
roles in producing a healthy population within this "accidental system",
etc. We are in a place where we have run out of workable ideas and the
time is ripe for trying ill-conceived solutions, such as the Medicare
reform.
We
are in a place where we have run out of workable ideas and the times
are ripe for trying ill-conceived solutions. Current policy areas will
be
examined to better understand the pressure and failure of incremental,
piecemeal reform efforts, e.g., Medicare Prescription Reform.
This lack of coherent direction is further adding to provider losses
and a
reluctance to serve Medicaid or Medicare enrolless. As we look
around
things appear to be getting worse for consumers, providers, insurers
and
government. In a ear of unprecedented technological medical
"advances"
we continue to suffer from the same old problems of cost, quality,
access
and the security of health benefits that we have concerned outselves
with
for the past forty years.
Within the learning
community we will challenge the
individually and
socially derived constructs of privilege versus right, options to market
based health care; access to what level of care; and multiple "ism"
issues, - while exploring mind/body/spirit integration.
