This text discusses health care finance, economics, and policy for nurses in the US, as well as ethical tools for understanding the relationship between care, overtreatment and undertreatment, metric-driven harm, and the economic impact of clinical decision making on equality in other areas of life. It outlines health economics terms and concepts, such as financing, reimbursement, and payment, as well as the evolution of the US health care system, the ways payment reform shapes work life, and how to use this knowledge to influence positive change. The author also goes into how health care markets differ from classic markets, the role of information in health care markets and decision making, and market entry, exit, and antitrust law; ethical perspectives and models for decision making, as well as how to apply this knowledge to organizational governance, board membership, and policy settings. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)