Health care symbol and wrench The main three drivers in need of overhaul are the price of medications, the lack of transparency over price and lack of open access to data.

The past ten years have caused a negative turning point for the American health care system, and specifically for consumer health care spending. In fact, unpaid medical bills have become the largest source of debt Americans owe collections agencies, holding $140 billion in unpaid medical bills.

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