Health Care Interest Groups
Health care interest groups represent a number of different stakeholders in the health care industry. There are interest groups focusing on patients’ rights, groups that center on physicians’ concerns, groups that represent insurance companies, groups that represent pharmaceutical firms, groups that represent families, and so on. There are also groups like Academy Health that facilitate the sharing of information among the various stakeholders by bringing representatives from the various groups together to guide and steer committees towards addressing some of the issues that they face. This paper will describe Academy Health and two other interest groups—the American Medical Association and American Action Network—and provide an analysis of their primary concerns with contemporary U.S. health care.
Academy Health is focused on the area of health services research. Its goal is to identify “what works, for whom, at what cost, and under what circumstances” so that stakeholders in health care can have a better understanding of where the various parties are coming from when they come to the table to negotiate health care issues (Academy Health, 2017). Academy Health’s primary concern with contemporary health care is to bring stakeholders together. That is why the interest group...
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http://www.academyhealth.org/node/298
AMA. (2017). About us. Retrieved from https://www.ama-assn.org/about
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