Despite the country’s mania for most things American, when it comes to health care, Israel chose a system based more on the European model. The government’s role is central as both funder and regulator. Yet, going by many indexes of health outcomes, the result in terms of quality of care is often better — and definitely cheaper than in the U.S. Under the Israeli system, the percentage of the country’s gross domestic product going to health care is less than half that of the United States. And coverage is universal.
Private hospitals and private practices have flourished as patients turn to them for surgeries and procedures that are funded primarily by their supplementary medical insurance.
For doctors with private patients, the shift toward more private care funded by supplementary health insurance has resulted in more income earned outside the public hospitals and HMOs. Doctors often leave their public posts early in the day to provide the privately funded care.
“Everyone’s running to private medicine, especially since the strike,” said Yisrael Barel, a regional manager for HMO Leumit in Netanya. “The senior doctors don’t like to operate in the public system and push customers to do it privately. I recently called a friend, a top surgeon, to ask him to take care of a patient, and he said, ‘You expect me to do private medicine in a public hospital?’ ”
Israel’s health system has become a hodgepodge of socialized medicine mixed with private practice. The entire wage structure of senior doctors is based on the assumption that they will moonlight, working two to three jobs, including at a public hospital where they can then refer patients to their private practice. To the younger doctors, it's a system that makes no sense.
“You have to look at the strike of the young doctors against the background of the protests in the general Israeli public,” said Dr. Dov Guverman, a senior official at Israel’s Health Ministry. “It’s a new generation of people who aren’t willing to accept the old system.”
Looka lika you willa be calling him Prick Scott soon, the turncoat is goin' down the road to serfdom. It aint gonna get this phony, crooked Tper reelected, if that is what he's panting for. Mark my words: Not gonna get reelected anyway.
Confronted by one of Congress's most passionate supporters of Obamacare, Gov. Rick Scott Friday refused to say he would be willing to accept the act's Medicaid expansion program but left the door open that he might drop his previously firm opposition.
"It's a tough choice, and it'll have to get made in the next few months," Scott told U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, at a gathering of more than 300 political leaders and politically-involved people at the Tiger Bay Club's monthly meeting. "I'll look forward to working with the federal government to see what we can do."
Let's pray for him, that he comes to his senses before decision time. BTW, what do you think of what Dr. Carson is proposing in the video / article linked in the latest post? Very simple, very free-market. No downside.
Despite the country’s mania for most things American, when it comes to health care, Israel chose a system based more on the European model. The government’s role is central as both funder and regulator. Yet, going by many indexes of health outcomes, the result in terms of quality of care is often better — and definitely cheaper than in the U.S. Under the Israeli system, the percentage of the country’s gross domestic product going to health care is less than half that of the United States. And coverage is universal.
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http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/09/18/3089437/after-doctors-strike-israelis-take-stock-of-health-care-systems-woes
ReplyDeletePrivate hospitals and private practices have flourished as patients turn to them for surgeries and procedures that are funded primarily by their supplementary medical insurance.
For doctors with private patients, the shift toward more private care funded by supplementary health insurance has resulted in more income earned outside the public hospitals and HMOs. Doctors often leave their public posts early in the day to provide the privately funded care.
“Everyone’s running to private medicine, especially since the strike,” said Yisrael Barel, a regional manager for HMO Leumit in Netanya. “The senior doctors don’t like to operate in the public system and push customers to do it privately. I recently called a friend, a top surgeon, to ask him to take care of a patient, and he said, ‘You expect me to do private medicine in a public hospital?’ ”
Israel’s health system has become a hodgepodge of socialized medicine mixed with private practice. The entire wage structure of senior doctors is based on the assumption that they will moonlight, working two to three jobs, including at a public hospital where they can then refer patients to their private practice. To the younger doctors, it's a system that makes no sense.
“You have to look at the strike of the young doctors against the background of the protests in the general Israeli public,” said Dr. Dov Guverman, a senior official at Israel’s Health Ministry. “It’s a new generation of people who aren’t willing to accept the old system.”
Looka lika you willa be calling him Prick Scott soon, the turncoat is goin' down the road to serfdom. It aint gonna get this phony, crooked Tper reelected, if that is what he's panting for. Mark my words: Not gonna get reelected anyway.
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Confronted by one of Congress's most passionate supporters of Obamacare, Gov. Rick Scott Friday refused to say he would be willing to accept the act's Medicaid expansion program but left the door open that he might drop his previously firm opposition.
"It's a tough choice, and it'll have to get made in the next few months," Scott told U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, at a gathering of more than 300 political leaders and politically-involved people at the Tiger Bay Club's monthly meeting. "I'll look forward to working with the federal government to see what we can do."
Let's pray for him, that he comes to his senses before decision time. BTW, what do you think of what Dr. Carson is proposing in the video / article linked in the latest post? Very simple, very free-market. No downside.
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