U.S. Health Care in the New Millennium - What are the future trends in health care?How they affects disease management, financial management, technology, and social aspect of health care delivery. integrate knowledge about the historical, social, ethical, technological, and financial aspects of health care service delivery into a vision for future health care delivery in the United States.

Economies of Scale - Explain how economies of scale can be used as an effective entry barrier to keep competition out of the market.

Managed care was initially promoted as a means for improving coordination of care and quality of care and reducing wasteful spending. In reality, what have been the results of managed care on the health care system? - Managed care was initially promoted as a means for improving coordination of care and quality of care and reducing wasteful spending. In reality, what have been the results of manage...

Health Care Spending - Why does it matter what we spend on health care in this country? Should we be spending considerably less in terms of GDP such as Canada and Europe with is about 7%vs the USA at 15%? What would be some consequences of high health care costs for individuals, companies, state and federal governments? How would we be able to get health care costs lowered or should we just lea...

rising cost of health care - What is the relationship between the rising cost of healthcare in the US and the increase in prevalence and treatment of chronic illnesses in the past 25 years. (Why are costs rising so dramatically? Why were they down in the mid-1990s?)