Have questions about the Affordable Care Act?
You can take a free University of Michigan course to learn more about U.S. health care reform.
Ever since President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010, people have questioned what the reform means for them and for health care in general.
The six-week class, taught by medicine and public policy professor Matthew Davis, tries to answer some of those questions.
The course is taught online using the Coursera platform. It's called Understanding and Improving the U.S. Healthcare System and is currently underway, with another session planned for the winter semester.
“We are in an era when health policy and health care reform is front and center, not only in doctors offices but on street corners,” Davis said in a release.
U-M expects more than 15,000 people to enroll in the course. The average class size for U-M classes on Coursera is nearly 50,000.
The course includes a 45-minute documentary segment that integrates archival footage of 11 U.S. presidents detailing their health care reform efforts over the past 65 years.