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• HCS 440 Entire Course

• HCS 440 Week 1 Discussion Question 1

• HCS 440 Week 1 Discussion Question 1
• HCS 440 Week 1 Discussion Question 2
• HCS 440 Week 1 Individual Assignment Economic
  Terms and Health Care History
• HCS 440 Week 2 Discussion Question 1
• HCS 440 Week 2 Discussion Question 2

• In what way(s) does a recession affect the
  economics of healthcare? How does it affect the
  providers versus the consumers of healthcare and
  what might be the overall effect in the economy?

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• HCS 440 Week 1 Discussion Question 2

• HCS 440 Week 1 Individual Assignment Economic
  Terms and Health Care History

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of
  profit versus nonprofit healthcare (provider)
  organizations? Please think beyond just the
  financial aspects of each and discuss the health
  outcomes and provider treatment aspects as well.

• 1. Individual Assignment Economic Terms and
  Health Care History
• Resource Economic Terms and Health
  Care History grading criteria on the student
  website.
• Complete the Economic Terms Exercise in
  Week One of the student website.

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• HCS 440 Week 2 Discussion Question 1

• HCS 440 Week 2 Discussion Question 2

• What should be the public's responsibility in
  bearing the cost of healthcare services for
  individual lifestyle choices (e.g., smoking, poor
  eating, lack of exercise, etc.)? Should there be
  some means for financially 'penalizing' those
  whose choices lead to excessive healthcare costs?

• What sorts of conditions or situations would
  affect a change from inpatient to outpatient
  care? What has been the trend in outpatient care
  over the last 5 years and what do you believe
  have been the major reasons for this trend?

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• HCS 440 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Health
  Care Reform Project, Part I

• HCS 440 Week 3 Discussion Question 1

• 1. Learning Team Assignment Health Care
  Reform Project, Part I
• Resource Health Care Reform Project,
  Part 1 grading criteria on the student website.

• How does the governments financing of education
  affect the supply of physicians and nurses and
  what role do you believe the government should
  play in trying to eliminate the shortage of
  medical professionals?

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• HCS 440 Week 3 Discussion Question 2

• HCS 440 Week 3 Individual Assignment Health Care
  Spending Paper

• Economists typically suggest that there are 4
  major forms of resources in any market land,
  labor, capital, and entrepreneurial ability. Of
  these, which do you think is the most important
  in the market for healthcare and why? How does
  the industry currently satisfy its demand for
  this resource most effectively?

• 1. Individual Assignment Health Care
  Spending Paper
• Resource Health Care Spending Paper
  grading criteria on the student website.
• Write a 1,250- to 1,750-word paper in
  which you explain your position on national
  health care spending in the United States.

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• HCS 440 Week 4 Discussion Question 1

• HCS 440 Week 4 Discussion Question 2

• What have been the major trends in health care
  over the last decade-in particular in terms of
  provider and facility type-and what have been the
  overall effects of these trends on the market.
  Speak to changes in healthcare expenditures and
  service delivery to patients.

• What role does the government currently play in
  supporting health insurance coverage and
  healthcare payments in the US and what role
  shouldthey play in financing or legislating
  healthcare in the future?

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• HCS 440 Week 4 Individual Assignment Economic
  Issues Simulation Paper

• HCS 440 Week 5 Discussion Question 1

• Individual Assignment Economic Issues
  Simulation Paper
• Review the Health Care Economics Issues
  HMO Simulation.
• Resource Economic Issues Simulation
  Paper grading criteria on the student website.

• Should every employer in the US be required to
  provide health insurance coverage to its
  employees? If so, to what degree? If not, do
  you think there should be an individual mandate
  requiring all individuals to purchase coverage
  for themselves and their family members?

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• HCS 440 Week 5 Discussion Question 2

• HCS 440 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Health
  Care Reform Project, Part II

• Several other countries (Canada, France) have
  instituted some level of socialized medicine.
  Briefly describe how this model is different from
  that in the US and explain whether and why/why
  not you think it would be successful in this
  country. Do you think the US already has some
  aspects of a socialized system in health care?

• 1. Learning Team AssignmentHealth Care
  Reform Project, Part II
• Resource Health Care Reform Project,
  Part II grading criteria on the student website.
• Prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation in which you summarize health care
  reform material.

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