Healthcare groups in U.S

  Individuals

            This refers to the current or the prospected patient who receives or will receive health based service such as cures and medicines from the health care system.  This player may be either a lone person such as a patient seeing a health attendant or a group of persons such as family or a communal in case of any rashes. The individual customer is the main factor of the healthcare choice and services and the individual has to settle and accomplish his or her, and the numerous of the other individuals’ anticipations. The player is the ultimate payer for the healthcare systems service (Andersen & Newman, 2005). 

Enterprise

            The enterprise is the player who gives specific services to the individual.  That player can be a good supplier of health based services such as giving medicals services such as medical provider of emergency services a short stay in hospital or a long period nursing in homes.  The player can be a support and a supply device such as lab, a drug company, an allocating drug store or a supplier of defensive services and teaching. The player can be a financing and a handling unit which cares for the health care arena such as an Insurance company or a public or private donor.  The player may also be a stockholder in goods that influence the health outcomes such as education and communal devices.  The player is a profit based though not profit for companies but is also included (Andersen & Newman, 2005).

The Government

            The player represents people whose main aim is to use the available public and private resources well and to raise the population health condition and results. The player acts as a policy maker and the legislator that makes the boundaries and the playing sections for the individuals and the enterprises.  Thus the government struggles to gratify the prospects of individuals and maintains equality towards the enterprises while making new prospects (Andersen & Newman, 2005). 

            The government also fulfills the role of a governor and auditor which makes sure that the other players act according to its rules. It gives licenses, creates the boundaries for the actions and the review them to make sure that they follow the legislations and the rules.  The player is best for providing a long choice apparition of the public health and the healthcare systems.  It also has the authority to direct and assess the communal health and assess a wide range of activities that may improve the health condition of the community (Andersen & Newman, 2005).

            All these players influence the healthcare system due to their corrupt inequity in their services which include the excess use of unimportant services and the underuse of valued services. These are said to be the effects of the imbalance between the enterprise and the government and the weaknesses of the individual and the community. The overuse of services that do not impact in better patient outcome can happen when the inducements and the construction are not associated with gaining the impartial of the improved population health. The overuse and the misuse of the services from these players has negative impacts such as that the overuse of the services increases the costs of the healthcare systems. The overuse of the unimportant health services such as treatments and reviews and the medications used for reasons not directly connected to advancing health leads to the increased healthcare costs to the whole community (Ferlie & Shortell, 2001). 

 

 

Reference

            Andersen, R., & Newman, J. F. (2005). Societal and individual determinants of medical care utilization in the United States. Milbank Quarterly, 83(4), Online-only.

            Ferlie, E. B., & Shortell, S. M. (2001). Improving the quality of health care in the United Kingdom and the United States: a framework for change. Milbank Quarterly, 79(2), 281-315.