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Introduces the analytical tools of economics and applies them to issues in healthcare. Includes topics: resource allocation in health care; government as payor and regulator; asymmetric information and the role of agency; the market for health insurance; market structure and competitive strategy as it applies to health care organizations; the market for labor in health care; and the market for innovations and technology. Uses mainstream neoclassical microeconomic theory as the basis for analysis, but also explores the implications when the assumptions of this model are violated. Uses a standard health economics text as the main reading, but uses journal articles in the field to examine how the profession is analyzing health care and public health issues.