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Residency Elective in Health Policy

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Mandatory Items

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)

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