MSS Chapter Advocacy Events

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Uninsured/ Health Care Reform

Moral Hazard & Tragedy of the Commons: An Introduction to Health Care Management and Policy
UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Nov. 26, 2007

This event was a Health Policy lunch lecture sponsored by the AMA chapter of Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Medical School and featured a first year medical student as the speaker. The goal of the presentation was to provide an overview of some basic, but vital concepts in health care policy and management today. These ideas and concepts will hopefully allow medical students at RWJ to better analyze, understand, and speak intelligently of issues in health care that the media bring up on a daily basis. The theory of moral hazard, adverse selection, cherry-picking behavior, and tragedy of the commons was discussed within a health care framework. The Case of Medicare Part D and a Health Care Management Case at a hospital were utilized to examine these concepts in detail. After the presentation, students should have developed an understanding of how these specific concepts (moral hazard, adverse selection, etc.) influence the development of health care legislation, insurance company behaviors, and other health care reforms. The speaker, Randy Tang, is currently a first year medical student. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in Finance and Health Care Management. He is also a baccalaureate-trained and registered nurse in the state of NJ.

• Medical student attendees: 50
• Funding source: School
• Contact: Randy Tang