Examine problems and priorities confronting the U. S. healthcare system.
Identify and discuss various stakeholders who influence health policy.
Understand the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the impact on cost, quality and access to care.
Review issues of conflict of interest and ethical dilemmas.
Define health and forces that affect health.
With so many different stakeholders in the health care system, many with powerful political lobbies, it is understandable that the government was unable, until the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, to address the problems of cost, access, and quality. What are your views about government’s versus the market’s role in reshaping the system?
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