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Spring 2010
5297 A Century of Health Care Reform - ORENTLICHER- 33220
added 9-2-09; teaching dates & times revised 10-8-09

Professor(s):

Credits: 2

Course Areas: Health Law 

Time: Intersession   See Course Notes Location:  

Course Outline: This course will provide historical and contemporary perspectives on the effort to enact universal access to health care in the United States. Beginning with proposals nearly a century ago, the course will trace the path to the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 and then consider more recent legislative approaches.

Readings will include comparisons of the US health care systems with universal health care systems in other countries, the different legislative proposals before Congress in 2009 (and possibly the final version of legislation enacted), and strategies to reduce health care spending so that universal access is affordable.

The course also will consider the similarities with and differences between a public program for health care and public programs for food, housing and income supplementation in the United States. This will allow us to understand better the kind of legislation that could ensure universal access to health care.

The course grade will be based primarily on an in-class, final exam.

Course Syllabus:

Course Notes:   This intersession course will meet from 9:00a-1:00p on the following dates:

Monday, January 4, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010

And will meet from 1:00p-5:00p on
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Final Exam = Tuesday, January 12, 10:00a-12:00p in the same classroom as class was held.

Prerequisites: NO  

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 01/12 10am -noon     

This course will have:
Exam: Yes
Paper: No

Book Requirements:

• (10/21/2009 3:37:09 PM) Title: Course Packet Used
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  Edition:  Year:  ISBN:  Publisher: NA
  Photocopied Materials - Available from the UH Copy Center Course packet used, no book needed.