Sanford Schwartz

Education

MD, University of Pennsylvania, 1974; AB, University of Rochester, 1970

Recent Consulting

Health Care Financing Administration; Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; Centers for Disease Control; National Institutes of Health; Department of Defense; World Health Organization; Presidential Commission on Social Affairs, Chamber of Deputies, Rome, Italy; National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine; American College of Physicians; Institute of Health Care Evaluation, Texas A&M University; New Jersey Department of Health; Hewlett Packard Corporation; Merck, Sharpe, & Dohme; SmithKline Beecham; CibaGeigy; Warner Lambert; Pfizer; Abbott Laboratories; BectonDickinson; ScheringPlough, Johnson & Johnson Companies, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, MacNeil Pharmaceuticals, RhonePoulencRohrer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations of America; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Association of Academic Medical Centers

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1989present. University of Pennsylvania: 1975present (Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, 198998; Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Economics, 198998)

Other Positions

Director, Clinical Efficiency Assessment, American College of Physicians, 198183; Chief, Ambulatory Health Care, Philadelphia Veteran's Administration Medical Center, 197778

Past Courses

HCMG250 HEALTH CARE REFORM

This course will provide students a broad overview of the current U.S. healthcare system. The course will focus on the challenges facing the health care system, an indepth understanding of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and of its potential impact upon health care access, delivery, cost, and quality as well as its effect on firms within the health care sector. The course will examine potential reforms, including those offered by liberals and conservatives and information that can be extracted from health care systems in other developed countries. ,The course will also explore key facets of the ACA, including improving access to care and health insurance exchanges, improving quality and constraining costs through health care delivery system reforms, realigning capacity through changes in the health care workforce and in medical education, the potential impact on biomedical and other innovations, and the impact on economic outcomes such as employment, wage growth, and federal budget deficits. The course will also examine the political context and process of passing major legislation in general and health care legislation in particular, including constitutional arguments surrounding the Affordable Care Act. Throughout the course, the key lessons will integrate the disciplines of health economics, health and social policy, law and political science to elucidate key principles.