The challenges in our current healthcare model are multifaceted including the financial, research and political sectors. For example, Obama care has issued a whole new era of universal healthcare in this country but at a cost that is yet to be fully understood. While Americans are now required to have healthcare, many people still have very high premiums that leave them financially strapped for affording the rest of their necessities. Overall, this is probably an improvement over our prior healthcare model but this remains an unknown, especially with political uncertainty as an election year approaches.Federal funding for research has been cut dramatically over the last 10 years. While we are not currently noticing the effects of this, downstream
