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Apr 19, 2024
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Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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CPEB 206 - Getting Healthcare (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area)
Healthcare is one of the defining issues of our age. When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, it introduced a number of healthcare reforms, including a ban on pre-existing condition exclusions and a requirement for health plans to pay for certain services like mental health, prescription drugs, and maternity care. Despite its gains, some have argued that the law did not go far enough in extending healthcare coverage, while others have claimed that the law is nothing more than an example of governmental intrustion into the most intimate areas of our lives. Thus, over the last few years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, the rise of the rallying cry of “Medicare-for-all,” and on the other hand, the reoccuring and impassioned effort to undo the law through repeal. This course will bring together perspectives primarily from medical anthropology and healthcare policy to consider how we got to where we are with our healthcare system and how people, whether as patients, providers, insurers, or as policy experts, participate in that system today. We will work individually and collaboratively to address the varied implications and processes of “getting healthcare” in the United States, both in terms of the everyday practices involved in healthcare-seeking and in terms of gaining a clear understanding of what has gone into the makings of a unique and very complex system for healthcare delivery and payment. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Offered Fall 2019. Schwarz.
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