ECO 2017 Economics & Finance of Health Care Policy
This course examines an increasingly important sector of the US economy, as health care now comprises almost 15% of gross domestic product. Further, this sector is one of the least influenced by ordinary market forces, largely because public and private insurance cover more than 80% of health care spending. The result is a unique and complex challenge to public policy: to determine how best to finance and deliver health care, so that it is both efficiently provided and equitably distributed. Prequisite: Principles of Economics II