HA 205 - American Health Care Systems

• Discuss the basic nature of the United States health care system. You will also assimilate your learning as a health care professional and/or consumer with the required readings of the course to understand and discuss the complexities, benefits and barriers to health care in the United States
• Understand and discuss the concepts of health and health care as they relate to U.S health care system outcomes and individual health care-seeking behaviors. Describe and discuss the evolution of health care in the United States and be able to compare U.S. health status to that of other industrialized nations
• Understand and discuss the public health responsibilities of local, state and federal governments
• Explain the impacts of competition and regulation on health care quality
• Discuss the benefits and barriers to health care usage created by different types of health care insurance
• Understand and discuss the various levels of health care along the continuum of care in the U.S. health care system
• Explain the professional, technological and financial aspects of the U.S. health care system
• Understand and discuss the meaning of health care costs, dimensions of access to care, and quality
• Understand and discuss the future of health services delivery in the United States
• Describe the health care system processes related to outpatient and primary care; inpatient facilities, managed care and integrated organizations, and long-term care and
  health care services for special populations
• Discuss the precedents of the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act of 2010