*Winter 2024, Summer 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025* - This course provides a broad overview of health policy, both in the U.S. and abroad, and explores the role that economic theory plays in the national healthcare reform debate. Students will be introduced to several theoretical tools and empirical observations used in economics to better understand the economic problems present in healthcare markets. We will explore the demand of healthcare, the supply of healthcare, and the role of information economics in the healthcare sector. We will apply these three topics to a discussion of public policy in the healthcare sector. We will use our economic tools to better understand market failures in the healthcare sector and the role for health policy to address these issues. By the end of the course, students should be able to analyze public policy in healthcare from an economist's perspective. 