Readings marked with an asterisk are compulsory and are provided in the course reader. [I expect you will not read those readings without an asterisk. They are included as they are very useful health economics references and in some cases are the basis for my lecture notes.]

Many readings are available on the web through a UC-Davis internet address, not always with tables.
- Health Affairs articles more than a year old through the California Digital Library at www.cdlib.org (though without tables)
- New England Journal of Medicine from www.nejm.org
- Journal of Health Economics from www.elsevier.com
- Health Economics articles through www.interscience.wiley.com
- American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and other leading economics journals for articles more than five years old see www.jstor.org
- National Bureau of Economics Working Papers available from www.nber.org

For more on journals and health textbooks see Section A5. in
http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cameron/e132/AMarket.pdf

Class 1
A. Overview of U.S. Health Market
* Getzen (1997), chapter 1.
Iglehart, John K. (1999), "The American Health Care System - Expenditures", New England Journal of Medicine, January 7, 1999, Vol.340, No.1, pp. 70-76.

Classes 2-4
B. Economic Evaluation of Health Care Services
* Getzen (1997), chapter 2.
Neuhauser, Duncan and Ann M. Lewicki, "What Do We Gain from the Sixth Stool Guiac?", New England Journal of Medicine, July 31, Vol.293, No.5, pp.
226-228.

Classes 5-8, 10
C. Health Insurance Overview
* Getzen (1997), chapters 3-4.

Class 9:  Midterm Exam

Class 11
D. Users (Demand)
Grossman, Michael (1972), "On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health", Journal of Political Economy, Vol.80, pp.223-255.

Class 12, 13
E1. Key Suppliers: Physicans and Hospitals
* Getzen Chs.5, 6.1-6.2;  8-9.7;

Class 14-15
F1. Managed Care (HMO's and PPO's) and Managed Competition
* Getzen Chs.10, 11.6-11.7.
* Reading 1: Miller, Robert H. and Harold S. Luft (1997), "Does Managed Care Lead to Better or Worse Quality of Care?", Health Affairs, Vol.16, September, pp.7-25.

Classes 16-17
F2. Coinsurance: Effect on Demand
* Reading 2: Manning, Willard G. et al. (1987), "Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment", American Economic Review, May 1987, pp.251-277.  [Focus on pages 251-256, 258-260, 267-271].

Class 18:  Midterm Exam

Class 19
F3. Moral Hazard and Risk Aversion
Arrow, Kenneth J. (1963), "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care", American Economic Review, Vol.53, pp. 941-973.
* Reading 3: Paully, Mark V. (1968), "The Economics of Moral Hazard: Comment", American Economic Review, Vol.58, pp.531-537.
* Reading 4: Feldman, Roger and Bryan Dowd, "A New Estimate of the Welfare Loss of Excess Health Insurance", American Economic Review, Vol.81, pp.297-301.

Class 20-21
F4. Adverse Selection
* Reading 5: Cutler, David. M. and Richard J. Zeckhauser (1999), "The Anatomy of Health Insurance", National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 7176.  [Section 6: pages 42-61, tables figures].  [For complete document go to www.nber.org].
* Reading 6: Buchmueller, TC and Feldstein, PJ. (1996), "Consumers Sensitivity To Health Plan Premiums - Evidence From A Natural Experiment In California", Health Affairs, Spring 1996, Vol.15, No.1, pp.143-151.
Buchmueller, TC and Feldstein, PJ. (1997), "The Effect of Price on Switching Among Health Plans", Journal of Health Economics, April 1997, Vol.16, No.2, pp.231-247.

Class 22
F5. No Health Insurance
* Reading 7:  Kuttner, R. (1999), "The American Health Care System - Health Insurance Coverage", New England Journal of Medicine, January 14, Vol.340, No.2, pp.163-168.

Class 23
E2. Key Suppliers: Pharmaceutical
* Getzen 13.    [Skip long-term care Ch.12.1-12.3;]

Classes 24-26
G. The Role of Government
* Getzen Ch.14, 16-17.
Iglehart, John K. (1999). "The American Health Care System - Medicare", New England Journal of Medicine, January 28, 1999, Vol.340, No.4, pp.327-332.
Iglehart, John K. (1999), "The American Health Care System - Medicaid",  New England Journal of Medicine, February 4, 1999, Vol.340, No.5, pp.403-408.

Classes 27-28
H. International Comparisons
* Getzen Ch.19.
Reading 8: Hall, Jane (1999), "Incremental Change in The Australian Health Care System", Health Affairs, Vol.16, May, pp.95-113.
World Health Organization (2000), The World Health Report 2000, Health Systems: Improving Performance, World Health Organization, 2000. [Available free from www.who.int/whr/].

Class 29:  Review of Course