Health Law and Policy

PHP 0330 provides an overview of how law shapes the U.S. health care system, including key health policy aims of access, quality, affordability, and equity. “Health Law” includes the laws and public policies that apply to the health care system or affect health care delivery. Health law profoundly shapes the U.S. health care system and the health and welfare of the population. The law has an important role in advancing (or retrenching) health equity through enforcement of individual rights and structuring the distribution of resources within the society. This course will cover core health law topics, including the regulation of health insurance and financing, quality, competition, provider–patient relationships, reproductive health care, and antidiscrimination in health care. The course will surveying the historical development and existing health law and policy and apply policy evaluation frameworks to engage in policy analysis.