Healthcare policy reading?

[Zharp]

Curious if anyone knows of any good reads for getting up to date on the current state of healthcare in America?

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[aldol16]

The policy aspect is changing so much so rapidly that the best source to keep up is a good news outlet. NYTimes does a good job. Just make sure you're not reading those "alternative facts."

 

[Lawpy]

Curious if anyone knows of any good reads for getting up to date on the current state of healthcare in America?

https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/sdn-collection-of-healthcare-resources.1209167/

Healthcare Policy

The widely recommended book to learn about healthcare policy is Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, Seventh Edition by Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach (the 7th edition is slightly more up to date in current affairs, but the 6th edition should be fine).

Free online resources can be categorized as the following:

General Healthcare Policy

• Khan Academy Tutorials on the US Healthcare System
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Brookings Institution
• Physicians for a National Health Program
• Cato Institute
• The Commonwealth Fund
• Council on Health Care Economics and Policy at Brandeis University
• HealthAffairs
• RAND Corporation

Healthcare Reform

• Brief History of Healthcare Reform: From Truman to Obama Administrations
• AARP Guide to Understanding Medicare
• Why Medicaid Matters (Fact Sheet by Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Patient's Guide to HIPAA: Index of FAQs (by World Privacy Forum)
• Summary of the Affordable Care Act (by Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Affordable Care Act Explained by Medicaid

 

[tessellations]

I second Lawper on the Commonwealth Fund. I LOVE their website, it's stock full of info not only on the USA health system, but also on a few other countries' health systems.