HEALTH ECONOMICS 4646-001


Interesting Links on Health Care Reform

  • Interactive Health Reform Timeline
  • Kaiser: Health Reform Hits Main Street
  • Kaiser: information on health reform and implementation timeline
  • NPR: Accident of History Created US Health Care System
  • NYT: History of Health Care Reform in the US
  • Newsweek Article: The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
  • New York Times Blog on Health Care Debate
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on health care reform
  • Kaiser Family Foundation on health care reform
  • Commonwealth Fund on health care reform

    • Assignments

  • Homework 1
  • Homework 2

    Lecture Slides

  • Lecture 1: Overview
  • Lecture 1: linked documents
  • Lecture 2: Overview- rising spending
  • Lecture 2 & 3: Micro Review
  • Lecture 4 & 5: Impact Evaluation
  • Lecture 6: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs - Progresa
  • Lecture 7 & 8: Health Production
  • Lecture 9: Health Demand
  • Lecture 10/11/12: Insurance 1 & 2
  • Lecture 13: Documentary - "Breakdown: America's Health Insurance Crisis"
  • Lecture 14/15: Equity Efficiency and Need
  • Lecture 16/17: Role of Government
  • Lecture 18/19: Social Insurance
  • Lecture 20/21: Providers: Hospitals
  • Lecture 22/23: Providers: Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Evergreen Drugs: NPR segment "Novartis Ruling Reverberates Past India's Border"
  • Lecture 24: Brief US Health Care History
  • Lecture 25: International Comparisons
  • Lecture 26 - FRONTLINE: Sick Around the World
  • Lecture 27: Health Care Reform Part 1 - Obama Health Care Address to Congress (see above for link)
  • Lecture 27/28: Health Care Reform Part 2 - Health Reform Hits Main Street (see above for link)
  • Lecture 28/29: Health Care Reform Part 3
  • Lecture 29: Health and Development Part 1
  • Lecture 30: Health and Development Part 2