Lecture Notes

This section contains lecture outlines used during the Fall 2004 semester.

LEC # TOPICS
1 Health Status, Expenditures and Resources (PDF)
2-3 Paying for Health Care: History and Methods (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
4 The Quest for National Health Insurance: Clinton Health Care Plan (PDF)
5 States as an Alternative (PDF)
6 Markets as an Alternative (PDF)
7 Comparative Systems: UK
8 Comparative Systems: Germany and Japan
9 Comparative Systems: Canada (PDF)
10 Comparative Assessment (PDF)
11 Medical Research
12 Politics of Health Risks I (PDF)
13 Politics of Health Risks II
14 Can There be Reform? (PDF)