Every year there are new challenges in health care. Research into the future of the US healthcare system is critically important to the entire healthcare industry and to US citizens. First, the research will discuss how to improve challenges for future healthcare services by reducing drug costs. Creating better quality health care, information technology advances, including future financing, reducing rising costs, Medicare and Medicaid programs. The research will also discuss the challenges of market shares for different ages of population and maintaining a skilled job. It will further discuss possible solutions to these challenges. Also discussed is the role the government plays in ensuring that these challenges are mitigated and that health care is available to all American citizens. Among these problems, poor quality of care is perhaps the most visible and concerning, resulting in nearly 100,000 preventable deaths each year (Institute of Medicine, 1999) and reduced quality of life for millions of Americans due to nonfatal but serious such as amputation of the wrong limb, hospital-acquired infections and medication errors (Institute of Medicine, 2006; Leape, 1997). Healthcare must be fully accountable for quality, and patient experience is simply the patient's perception of quality. Society should question and discuss how healthcare organizations should demonstrate improvements for consumers. This can help organizations create reliable health coverage costs and price medical benefits for families and individuals in the future. Clinicians and organizations are now assessing patients with electronic data collection to improve the patient's... middle of paper... (community assessment). This process segments the insurance market into large, low-risk (i.e., lower costs) employers and small, higher-risk (i.e., higher costs) employers (Amen and Trapnell, 1984). References Nembhard, I.M., Alexander, J.A., Hoff, T.J., & Ramanujam, R. (2009). Why does the quality of healthcare continue to slow down? Insights from management research. Academy of Management Perspectives, 23(1), 24-42. doi: 10.5465/AMP.2009.37008001 Levit, K. R., & Cowan, C. A. (1991). Businesses, Families and Governments: Health Care Costs, 1990. Health Care Financing Review, 13 (2), 83. Retrieved from: Ashford University LibraryBoaden, R., & Joyce, P. (2006). Developing the Electronic Health Record: What About Patient Safety? Health Services Management Research, 19(2), 94-104. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/236465771?accountid=32521