This course explores the multifaceted issues affecting health care policy in the United States. The course reviews the history of health care policy and provides students with an understanding of how it has shaped our current health care delivery system. Major health care policies and initiatives are reviewed. The course also explores the many political challenges (state and national), political process, impact of the presidential administration, and political interest groups. Students examine the impact that various parties have on health care policy and the challenges facing reform efforts.