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HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 Provide a high-level overview of the US health care system. Discuss how your personal worldview may influence your perspective on the healthcare system in relation to cost, quality, and access.

DQ2 Discuss the commonalities and differences between individual and population health. Provide an example of each, along with a time when a provider would be concerned about both concurrently.

 

HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 The Pareto efficiency is a simple idea, but it is difficult to achieve. Why is this? Provide an example from outside your textbook.

DQ2 Describe perfect competition as it relates to health care economics. What are the key characteristics? Does perfect competition provide an advantage or disadvantage to the consumer? To the health care provider/organization? Provide an example of perfect competition within health care.

 

HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 The public interest theory and the special interest theory of government intervention have their similarities and differences. Compare and contrast these two theories and provide a recent example of each.

DQ2 How are Medicaid and Medicare similar? How are they different?

 

HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 Increased demand for health care services leads to an increasing need for health care organizations to be cost-efficient. What are the factors that impact an organization's financial viability?

DQ2 Discuss how the individual demand for health care differs from the aggregate demand for health care. Provide at least one example.

 

 

 

 

HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 Analyze the role of the market in addressing workforce shortages, including projections for the physician market and monopsony model for the market for nurses.

DQ2 Describe the difference between cost-saving and cost-increasing technology-based innovations. Provide an example of each and analyze why a cost-increasing innovation would continue to be used.

 

HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Supply and demand encompass the health care workforce, just as they do any other service providers. Describe the role that public policy plays when discussing physician shortages.

DQ2 Nursing shortages are a source of feared for many health care administrators. Describe what the nursing workforce is like where you live. (Your state board of nursing website is a good place to gain information.) Next, discuss what aspects are leading to an overall nursing shortage, and what steps are being done to counteract this shortage.

 

HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 7 Discussion

DQ1 Explain the history of failed attempts to enact national health insurance in the United States.

DQ2 According to your personal worldview, should individuals have a right to medical care? Are there any instances when medical care should not be considered a right?

 

HCA530 Health Care Policies & Economics

Week 8 Discussion

DQ1 Using both your textbook and at least one other peer-reviewed source, discuss the public choice theory or model. How does it relate to rivalness and excludability?

DQ2 Think of a time when a government policy directly affected policy or policies at your organization. While health care examples are preferred, if you do not have experience working in that environment yet, any professional setting can apply.