PMO 598 Introduction to Healthcare Economics
This course applies economic concepts to: analyze health, the healthcare market and policies for healthcare. Two primary themes for this course are: public health care economics, and military health care economics. As they relate to the primary topics of the course, the primary objectives of this course are: 1) to understand the distinctive economic characteristics of health, the healthcare industry and the professional responsible for delivering health services 2) from the standpoint of economics, to analyze and evaluate, the American systems of healthcare financing and delivery 3: to discuss multiple current policy issues such as health care costs, uncompensated care, managed care and health insurance reform.