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This paper examines the feasibility of achieving U.S. health care reform and prognosis for success. In order to accomplish the task, this paper provides a check list of major problems which emerge continually in the field. In compiling a list of major problems, a tentative list of eight are presented. These problems include the following: unnecessary administrative costs; other major industrial countries can provide adequate health care at a lower rate of the national budget than does the U.S.; increase in malpractice insurance; shortage of primary care physicians in the rural and inner city areas; failure of health insurance; abundance of technology; distribution of care; and increase in health care costs. According to the author, these eight major problems give some indication to the complexity of the issues involved in the health care reform. These problems should be viewed in the context of the five major participant groups in health care: consumers, politicians, physicians and other health care providers, employers, and insurance companies. This paper briefly discusses the affected participants. It also provides a brief review of the proposed solutions to the problem of health care reform.