What Are Stakeholders In Healthcare

Today’s healthcare is very complex and complicated. Healthcare has many stakeholders including patients, medical providers, the government, healthcare facilities, payers, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies. Each stakeholder has their own vision of how the healthcare system should work. Each stakeholder is very important to the survival of continuation of healthcare services for millions of Americans. Every stakeholder has a different job but they all need to coordinate, work together, and combine their efforts to maintain the well fair of our healthcare system. This is easier said than done. Each stakeholder’s relationship with each other is complex and complicated. This author will compare and contrast different visons of healthcare among mentioned stakeholders and how these can be seen in our healthcare delivery system.
Physicians play an important part of any healthcare system. Many physicians arrive into the profession with sole purpose of helping patients who are in need of medical assistance. The path to become a board certified physician is challenging and requires years of dedication and education. Physicians just want to provide the best care possible to the patients with as little as possible outside distraction as possible (Unruh, 2013). The relationship between physicians and hospital managers has always been up and down. Both parties have

The way insurance companies make money in this scheme is physicians are prescribing certain brand name drugs which costs the patients twice as much as the generic brand which in turn makes insurance companies a lot of money (Ornstein et al.,