這課程以比較性的角度來檢視美國面對的醫療照護政策問題，包括為全民提供取得醫療服務的足夠途徑，控制上升中的醫療照護成本，和保證醫療照護服務的素質是優良和逐漸改善的。課程探討現時美國正在政治討論的市場和監管政策的方案來解決問題，以及與其他可行的外國改革模式比較，包括加拿大，英國，日本和德國的制度。課程介紹美國醫療照護制度的歷史發展，是如何大力限制了可以考慮的政策方案，和創造了偏重持續強調科技和結構性權力下放的壓力。課程亦檢視重大的醫療風險，和扭曲公眾了解這些風險的政治和組織因素。
This course examines in comparative prospective the health care policy problems facing the United States including providing adequate access to medical services for all, the control of rising health care costs, and the assurance that the quality of health care services is high and improving. It explores the market and regulatory policy options being debated politically in the United States to solve these problems and compares possible foreign models for reform including those offered by the Canadian, British, Japanese, and German systems. The course shows how the historical development of the American health care system limits greatly policy options that can be considered and creates pressures that favor a continuing emphasis on technology and structural decentralization. The course also examines important health risks and the political and organizational factors that distort the public's understanding of these risks.
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