June 4 – CE program Mass – Be Careful What You Wish For Part I (45 credits including ethics)

This program is free for people who use the special Blue Cross code when they register.

Login to this website and register below. Then follow these steps.

Read these texts

• Ensuring America’s Health by Christy Ford Chapin, 14 credits, Mass course #93826, available from amazon.com  as kindle (rent or buy) and paperback.
• The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr, 28 credits, Mass course #57041, available from amazon.com as paperback, kindle and audiobook, and from hoopla, the free Massachusetts library app. This classic won a Pulitzer Prize.
• Ethical Insurance Advising I, Commercial Insurance by Gary Fradin, 3 ethics credits, Mass course #6000157817, pdf available on this website under Gary’s Texts after you login.

Attend Gary Fradin’s 45 minute Zoom lecture ‘Be Careful What You Wish For Part I’ on June 4 at 10:00

• You will receive a personalized Zoom link directly from Blue Cross.
• Gary will discuss some key structural problems with commercial health insurance.

Take the exams on the 3 texts listed above.

• Take the exams on this website, about 30 minutes each. Graded immediately. Retakes available as necessary. Finish by midnight on Friday, June 7.
• You will receive detailed exam access instructions about a week in advance.

Note that this is Part 1 of an envisioned 2 part CE program. The second part entitled Be Careful What You Wish For Part II, worth an additional / different 45 CE credits, will address structural problems with public / single payer health insurance. Tentatively scheduled for June 2025 or 2026.