Understanding the Health-Care Landscape

Explores the key actors, institutions, and policies that shape current health care and the biomedical regulatory environment. Focuses on the disparate and overlapping parties (e.g., patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, nurses, Medicare, Medicaid, pharmaceutical, and medical device firms), their interests, and their interactions. Emphasizes the ways in which these relationships determine the quality, access, and the costs of health care. Through a careful reading of primary sources, offers students an opportunity to see the health-care crisis from the perspective of different parties. Highlights the ways in which the health-care landscape shapes the development, marketing, and regulation of drugs, biologics, and medical devices.

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