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Health Reform 101: What It Means to You and to the American People

Author(s): Richard Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology-Biostatistics, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Founding Dean, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, Washington D.C.
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Written by the author of Public Health 101, this 15-page analysis examines the health reform legislation signed in March of 2010. Intended as a free supplement to Public Health 101, Health Reform: What it Means to You and to the American People follows a consistent chapter format with this key title in the Essential Public Health series.

 

Health Reform: What it Means to You and to the American People offers a brief 100-year history of U.S. health reform, walks the reader through President Obama’s eight principles to guide the development of health reform, and provides details and a schedule for implementation of health insurance restructuring. This incisize supplement examines the specific strategies that will be used to reform the health insurance system as well as how such reform will affect different groups of individuals based on age, income level, and health status. Learning objectives and discussion questions at the conclusion of the chapter engage the reader in further thought and analysis of the material.

 

Bundle with Public Health 101 at no additional cost. Order ISBN 978-1-4496-0149-2.

CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this chapter, the student will be able to:
• identify President Obama’s eight guiding principles for Health Reform legislation.
• analyze and grade the extent to which the final legislation achieved each of the guiding principles.
• identify strategies that underlie health insurance reform.
• explain how age, income, and health status/health risks affect the impact of health insurance reform.
• identify steps in the phase-in process for health insurance reform.
• analyze the impacts that health insurance reform will have when fully implemented.

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Richard Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD-Professor of Epidemiology-Biostatistics, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Founding Dean, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, Washington D.C.

Richard K. Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD is Professor of Epidemiology-Biostatistics, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Founding Dean of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Washington, DC. His education includes an M.D. from the University of Wisconsin plus a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Riegelman practiced primary care internal medicine for over 20 years.

Dr. Riegelman has over 70 publications including 6 books for students and practitioners of medicine and public health. He is currently editor of the Jones and Bartlett book series Essential Public Health. The series provides books and ancillary materials for the full spectrum of curricula for undergraduate public health as well as the core and cross-cutting competencies covered by the Certification in Public Health examination of the National Board of Public Health Examiners. He has taken a lead role in developing the Educated Citizen and Public Health initiative which has brought together arts and sciences and public health education associations to implement the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies recommendation that “…all undergraduates should have access to education in public health.”. Dr. Riegelman also led the development of George Washington’s undergraduate major and minor and currently teaches “Public Health 101” and “Epidemiology 101” to undergraduates.

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