1. Identify the executive branch departments that administer the major U.S. health programs. How has the federal government, through these departments, sought to regulate health care, services, or costs? What is the depth of the health-care costs to the federal government?

2. Compare the quality of health care to that of the other industrialized nations.

3. Identify and define the major problems of the American health-care system.

4. Discuss the two major health programs in which the federal government has played a role since the 1960s.

5. Describe the Affordable Health Care Act. What was it designed to do? How it is currently operating? What efforts has the Trump Administration made to repeal and replace it?

6. In what ways does government regulate the health-care system?

7. Describe the major pursuits toward a system of national health care in the United States.