Since 1998, the Ministry has indexed inflationary increases for that basket of services to the standard national inflation rate - and eliminated the previous practice of recognizing a separate and substantially higher inflation rate for the medical industry. It guarantees a basic basket of health services to everyone and has established a transparent national Finance Ministry committee that governs what, if any, new services can be added to the basic basket each year. “It was a big deal and a sea change not only in our health system but also in the whole Israeli political economy,” Chintz said.įunded by a health tax and other government funding, the Israeli national system is administered through four different health plans. In 1995, Israel became the second-to-last country of the developed world to provide health care insurance coverage to all of its citizens, leaving the U.S. Entitled “Governing the Health Sector: Insights from Israel,” it detailed the country’s essential health benefits, information systems, financing and efforts to increase cost consciousness and quality improvement. Speaking at a health policy seminar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), the Hebrew University Professor of Health Policy and Management provided an overview of the Israeli system. Nineteen years after enacting a universal coverage law, Israel continues to grapple with the triangular constraints of cost, access and quality that define the limits of any national health care system, according to David Chintz. ( Also see the complete, unedited 58-minute presentation)
(3-minutes) VIDEO EXCERPT: Appearing at a policy seminar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), Professor David Chintz of Hebrew University discussed Israel’s 19-year-old universal health insurance system.
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