Categorize cost containment strategies as price controls and utilization.Identify key terms in health care expenditures and demonstrate ability to match categories to actual data tables.Distinguish between the elements of access in health care: access to insurance coverage, access to services, use of services.Describe major characteristics of the uninsured in the US pre-implementation of changes from the Affordable Care Act (ACA).Identify and define the five course pillars.Health care spending per capita in US compared to other countries.Burden of health care costs on families.Small proportion of population uses most of resources.Increase in health care spending exceeds growth of US economy.We will differentiate between the traditional primary care and hospital-based paradigms and more preventive, out-patient and medical home community models.Įxplore the infograph about US Health Care Costs by reviewing "Visualizing Health Policy" from the September 2012 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. This module will provide an introduction to the American health care system (AHCS), explore some of the complexities of health care delivery, and provide a glimpse of the historical evolution of the AHCS that has led to the great debate and need for health care reform today. The US has the trifecta of high cost, unequal access, and often below average outcomes compared to other highly developed nations. These five elements of health care are the pillars of this course.
A focus of our class will be the downstream effects on access, quality, cost, equity, and population health. Direct effects can be seen in the organization and delivery of care. Overview of the American Healthcare SystemĮxternal forces of history, financial constraints, political landscape, current socioeconomic structure and consumer preferences shape the structure, or lack thereof, of the American health care system-often through health policy decisions about funding care, reimbursement, and regulation.
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