With regards to health care the last several years have seen large changes positive and negative to health care reform. For the last five decades presidents have been trying to reform the health care system in the United States with no avail. “There are few things more important to people than their health. Americans tend to believe they enjoy the best health care in the world (Edwards pg 554)”. It’s for this reason the government has had such a difficult time wrapping itself around the issue of health care and being able to make any effective changes to the health care system. The United States spends more than 2.9 trillion dollars a year on health care. Those that are primarily affected by health care cost are the elderly, children and unmarried
