health economics healthcare finance and policy what every student needs to know about the care field before entering it agenda why is this important key issues in us today crises globally current political facts should students be familiar with questions discussion interviewers will ask for a host of reasons uninformed or unsophisticated answers are increasingly hard defend need have some substantive understanding climate basic making decision practice medicine without basics services dangerous domestic 45 million people uninsured another 30 under insured as gets more expensive left behind medicare funded getting costly medicaid reliant on state s budgets torts malpractice costs new threats bio terrorism vaccines do you think flu vaccine infectious disease response moral ethical cloning stem cells spending nhe 2002 highlights 1 55 trillion up by 9 3 from prior year 5440 per capita 8 both accelerations
