American society finds itself in a Dickensian dichotomy: we have witnessed in the last 50 years some of the most significant technological and medical breakthroughs in human history, while at the same time experiencing high levels of health care inequity and the medical (not to mention economic) fallout of a global pandemic. This report from DesignIntelligence®, “The Future of American Health Care Delivery,” dives into the United States’ twentieth-century health care history before examining the dramatic impacts of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic both through the lens of media and nonprofit reports as well as the ground-level perspectives of health care staff and administrators.