Review:
I really enjoyed this course, and I am actually surprised by the number of people who have expressed frustration with McKissick. In a class like this, it is very easy to spend the whole time pointing out all the problems with our healthcare system and bashing the lawmakers that have shaped it. McKissick did a wonderful job explaining how policy and politics interact in the real world as opposed to how policy and politics should interact in an ideal world. He is extremely enthusiastic about the course, the readings were very interesting, and I learned a lot. Sometimes, he rambles in class, but I generally enjoyed this class.

Workload:
pretty average and the readings were interesting for the most part.

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Review:
After reading some of the reviews about Prof. McKissick being a great teacher and caring about his students I felt obligated to write a review because I feel he must have written them himself. I thought he was arrogant, unhelpful, off topic and often rude an inappropriate. I really had a hard time believing Tufts would hire such a terrible teacher. The material was interesting and I got an A in the class, but going to class was so incredibly painful that I do NOT recommend it to anyone!

Workload:
N/A

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I'm sorry, but I genuinely did not like Prof. McKissick. He often went off on tangents during lecture. He had a sort of "break down" in the middle of the semester which constituted of changing of the syllabus and final paper. Many of the readings were explained in recitation, however, most of the time the TA's were unsure of what the relevance of the readings were. Around test and paper time, it was very difficult to pin down exactly what was required in the assignment. He made the class a lot more complicated then it had to be.

Workload:
There were a lot of readings. You must buy a course reader in the beginning of the semester. However you must also read several books and lots of articles that are given in class or posted on Blackboard.

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Review:
I can't stress enough what a great professor McKissick is. Whether or not you are interested in healthcare going into this class, you will be interested in the subject afterwards. He is an extremely engaging professor who genuinely cares about what he is teaching. Shows great concern for his students progress and is extremely helpful outside of class.

Workload:
I would say that there was a lot of reading, but that it was very interesting reading and from a variety of sources. Exams were very straight forward and professor really prepared students for them with review sheets. Papers were also very straightforward. Great class!

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