HEALTH POLICY

I learned about how our healthcare system works, specifically the different types of insurances available in the US. I was able to understand private insurance, medicaid and medicare and the complicated nature that goes along with all the types of insurances. I learned how to write a policy memo and had the task of being a stakeholder and allocating monies to different legislation!

This class taught me so much about the structure of the health care system, insurance, Medicaid, Medicare. I really enjoyed understanding more about the very complicated health system in the United States.

I developed knowledge about Medicare, Medicaid, and the US healthcare payer/consumer system. Also learned about writing health policy memos and budget allocation for policies.

I learned to write a policy memo, which is such a specific form of writing. I appreciate all the guidance she provided about how to do this. I appreciated the stakeholder assignment for a lobbying exercise. This was a valuable thought exercise. I liked that we did such short journal article presentations. I've had experience presenting a journal article in detail for 20 or so minutes. It flexes a different muscle to read a detailed journal article and then elevate out of the weeds to present it in 5 minutes.

cost-effectiveness analysis; the role of pharmay benefit managers; how to write a policy memo