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Graduate Record 2016-2017 
    
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GNUR 5390 - Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System

This course is designed to provide an overview of (1) how health care is financed, organized, and delivered in the U.S., as well as (2) the major policy challenges created by the system’s organization, or lack thereof. In drawing from a variety of perspectives-including political science, economics and history-the course surveys the key stakeholders: those who pay for, provide and receive care.



Credits: 3