Reforming the Israeli health system: findings of a 3-year evaluation

A consumer-based tool for evaluating the quality of health services in the Israeli health care system following reform

“…12 The random sample on which this was based was designed to reflect the relative size of each health plan. reform, which were intended to increase equality in the system.…”

“…This has enabled the JDC-Brookdale Institute (as well as other institutions), an independent, non-profit research institute, to conduct a continuous, long-term evaluation of the reform. The institute has adopted a case study approach, which seeks to integrate in-depth understanding of changes in the system and in health care providers' organizational behavior, with a variety of outcome measures [10,12].…”

“…The new law included in the mandated basic benefits package those services that had been part of Clalit's obligatory supplemental package 6. This deficit was attributed to both an increase in age-adjusted per capita expenditures and a decline in age-adjusted per capita income (the increases in rates of expenditure and decreases in income varied among the health plans[12]). …”

Private medical services in acute‐care hospitals in Israel

“…The descriptive and analytic literature on the Israeli health care system is not extensive (for useful sources, see: Chernichovsky and Chinitz, 1995;Chinitz, 1996;Gross et al, 2001;Shuval, 1991Shuval, , 1992Shirom and Gross, in press). Therefore, a brief summary of its main features follows.…”

“…Again, this particular pitfall of PMS may occur within sick funds offering supplementary health insurance. Therefore, it has been suggested (Gross et al, 2001) that only for-pro®t insurance companies, operating on actuary principles, should be allowed to sell these policies.…”