Introduction and Overview of the US Healthcare System

• The Healthcare System of the United States by Healthcare Triage, Dr. Aaron Carroll (7:36)
• The Dysfunction of the US Healthcare System, Vox (1:26)

Introduction to Federal Government

• Center for Budget Policy Priorities, Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go? (4:49)
• How a Bill Becomes a Law (3:20)

Private Insurance

• Test yourself! How much do you know about health insurance? http://kff.org/quiz/health-insurance-quiz/
• Health Insurance Explained: The Youtoons (5:24)
• Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums

Medicare, Medicaid, and the Uninsured

• Medicare at a glance: Fact Sheet
• Medicaid Moving Forward: Issue Brief
• The Uninsured, Khan Academy/Brookings (11:23)
• The Uninsured: a primer-KFF (you can either read the KFF article or view the Khan Academy video)

Basics of Health Economics

• Harvard School of Public Health: Health Economics (10:00)

Introduction to the Affordable Care Act

• Khan Academy: PPACA or “Obamacare” (7:13)

Overtreatment

• Overkill
• The New Yorker. Atul Gawande, The Cost Conundrum
• Choosing Wisely Campaign (2:58)
• The Upshot article
• State Health Facts for CA 

Social Determinants of Health

• TEDMED 2012. Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? (16:31)
• Reuters Article: Think preventive medicine will save money? 

Global Health

• Liberty, democracy, equity, and justice in healthcare: Leana Wen at TEDx (15:35)