Spring 2024 - HCMI 4225: Health and Social Insurance

HCMI 4448: Clinical and Social Issues in Health Care
Spring 2024 Tuesday/Thursday 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM BUSN 204
Instructor: Shane Murphy; Email: shane@uconn.edu; Website: https://shane-murphy.uconn.edu/teaching/spring-2022-hcmi-5243/; Office: BUSN 460
Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM and by appointment

This is the website for HCMI 4225: Health and Social Insurance. The syllabus can be found on HuskyCT.

On this page you can find a calendar which includes links to materials from each week and lists the weeks readings. Homework assignments are to do a reading response for one of the readings and are listed on HuskyCT.

Quiz make-up assignment description is on HuskyCT. Articles for quiz make-ups should be chosen from Health Affairs Blog, News@JAMA, or Kaiser Health News. Information about the exams and paper will also be posted to HuskyCT.

Course Schedule:

(for off campus access, you may need to use the UConn VPN)
January 17: Intro and US Epidemiology (slides)
*(optional) Mokdad, Ali H., Katherine Ballestros, Michelle Echko, Scott Glenn, Helen E. Olsen, Erin Mullany, Alex Lee et al. “The state of US health, 1990-2016: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states.” Jama 319, no. 14 (2018): 1444-1472.
*(optional) Fuchs, Victor R. “Major trends in the US health economy since 1950.” New England Journal of Medicine 366, no. 11 (2012): 973-977.

January 19: Economics of Insurance (slides)
*(optional) Nyman, John A. “Is ‘moral hazard’ inefficient? The policy implications of a new theory.” Health Affairs 23, no. 5 (2004): 194-199.

January 23: History of health and social insurance: pre-New Deal to New Deal (slides)
* Skocpol, Theda. “State Formation and Social Policy in the United States.” In Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective, 172:11–36. Princeton University Press, 1995. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10crf5v.5.

January 25: History of health and social insurance: New Deal to WWII (slides)

January 30: History of health and social insurance: WWII – Great Society (slides)
* Quadagno, Jill. “Why the United States has no national health insurance: Stakeholder mobilization against the welfare state, 1945-1996.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2004): 25-44.

February 1: History of health and social insurance: Great Society – 1990s (slides)

February 6: History of health and social insurance: ACA (slides)
* Obama, Barack. “United States health care reform: progress to date and next steps.” Jama 316, no. 5 (2016): 525-532.

February 8: History of health and social insurance: ACA – Bidenomics (slides)

February 13: Effects of Medicare and Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion (No class, Snow day) (slides)
* Card, David, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas. “Does Medicare save lives?.” The quarterly journal of economics 124, no. 2 (2009): 597-636.

February 15: Public Goods (slides)
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February 20: Effects of Medicare and Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion (material skipped during snow day), rights (slides)

February 22: Rights (slides)

February 27: Right to Health Care (slides)

February 29: Midterm Review (slides)

March 5: Midterm

March 7: Public Insurance and Provision for Subgroups: Tricare and the VA, Indian Health Services, Medicaid and Medicare (slides)