Business & Professionalism I:
The US Health-Care System: The Big Picture
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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Schedule |
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8:00 – 8:30 AM |
SSOM Atrium |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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8:30 – 9:30 AM |
Seminar Rooms |
Reflection Small Groups |
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9:30 – 9:45 AM |
Break |
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9:45 – 10:45 AM |
Tobin Hall 190 |
The US Health Care System: Some Basics. Aaron Michelfelder, MD Associate Professor and Vice Chair Department of Family Medicine |
| 10:45 - 11:00 AM | Break | |
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11:00 - 11:45 AM |
Tobin Hall 190 |
Insuring the Uninsured:
The Current Landscape Mark G. Kuczewski, Ph. D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Director Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy |
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11:45 - 12:30 PM |
Tobin Hall 190 |
Health Care Reform: What's at Stake Patricia Cassicy, MBA President, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital |
| 12:30 - 12:45 PM | SSOM Atrium |
Mentor Program James Winger, MD |
| 1:00 - 1:30 PM | SSOM Atrium | M3 / M1 Pizza Lunch |
Session Objectives
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Understand What Sources Contribute to U.S. Health Care
Financing
2. Define key insurance terms such as co-pay, co-insurance,
deductible, HMO, PPO, etc.
3. Demonstrate differences between Medicare and Medicaid
4. Demonstrate how PPO insurance works in practical
application
5. Understand the role of the uninsured in the financing of
the U.S. Health Care System
6. Identify the major mechanisms of financing the delivery of
health care, e.g., Medicare
Medicaid, private insurance
7. Identify strategies for insuring the uninsured
8. Analyze the impact of proposed reform effort on various
stakeholders in the health care system,
e.g., hospitals, patients, insurers,
etc.
Required reading:
ROBERT PEAR and
DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, A
Primer on the Details of Health Care Reform, New York Times, August 10,
2009
Wedding, Behavior and Medicine, 4th edition. Chapter 25 "Health Services in the
United States." pages 303-319
"Definitions of Health Insurance Term." United States Government
Interdepartmental Committee on Employment-based Health Insurance
Surveys. 2002
Recommended Reading:
"Overview of the
U.S. Health Care System." Kao-Ping Chua, AMSA 2006
"Illinois Health Care Options Matrix." www.coverageforall.org
AMA Statement on Health Care Reform:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/advocacy/health-system-reform.shtml
NMA Statement on Health Reform
Priorities
http://www.nmanet.org/images/uploads/Documents/NFNP285.pdfVictor R. Fuchs, The proposed government
health insurance company--no substitute for real reform.
New England Journal of Medicine, 360(22): 2273-2275, 2009.Barack
Obama, Why We Need Health care Reform, NY Times Op-Ed, August 17, 2009
"The Uninsured," NY Times, August 23, 2009
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