(This article is about political movements affecting the delivery of health care and health care systems. For more information about movements to improve health, see Health reform.)

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major policy creation or changes --for the most part, governmental policy --that affects healthcare delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:

• Broaden the population covered by private or public health insurance
• Expand the array of health care providers consumers may choose among
• Improve the access to health care specialists
• Improve the quality of health care
• Decrease the cost of health care