Health Care Financing and Delivery

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The purpose of the course is to foster your development into a health services and policy researcher. To accomplish this, the course involves a general survey of substantive issues in payment and financing in healthcare. By the end of the course you should have knowledge of the main institutions, policy issues, and research areas and questions related to payment and financing in US healthcare. You should also have an initial understanding of where the most promising and pressing areas of research lie within this field. Thus, this course is about the past, present, and future of the field.