BGU | MY PATH, Haim Doron, MD

Chapter 8 - Psychiatrics, Geriatrics, Rehabilitation, and Dentistry in Clalit ......................... 66 Psychiatry in Clalit; Rehab and Rehabilitation Geriatrics; Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital in Ra’anana; Beit Rivka Geriatric Hospital; Harzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gadera; Dentistry in Clalit. Chapter 9 - Stages towards a National Health Insurance Law .................................................... 71 Background: Clalit and the Labor Federation; Clalit as a Subordinate Entity to the Labor Federation; The Problem of Premium Collection; Labor Federation Fund-raising in the United States and Clalit’s Independent Fundraising Activities; Conflict of Interest between the Labor Federation and Clalit; Bills to Legislate National Health Insurance; The Establishment of the Netanyahu Commission- an Inquiry into the Role and the Efficiency of the Health System; Composition of the Netanyahu Commission; Recommendations of the Netanyahu Commission; The 1994 National Health Insurance Law; Principles of the National health insurance Law; Elements Missing from the Law; The Fate of the National Health Insurance Law; The ‘Arrangements in the Economy’ Law; Abolition of the Parallel Tax ; Introduction of Supplemental Health Insurance Plans; Introduction of Co-Payments; Proposals Not Adopted in the ‘Arrangements Law;’ Erosion of Machinery for Updating the Basket of Health Services; Privatization; Summing Up the State of National Health Insurance Today. Chapter 10 - The Physicians’ Strike: Causes and Outcomes ........................................................ 88 Public Medicine and Private Medicine - the Backdrop to the Doctors’ Strike; Physicians’ Salary Demands from the Public Health System over the Years ; Changes in Opportunities for Private Practice; Allowing Private Medical Services in Public Hospitals; The 1983 Doctors’ Strike; The Israeli Medical Association (IMA): A Professional Scientific Society or a Union for Leveraging Salary Issues?; The Strike Methodology; Attempts to End the Strike; The Results of the Strike; My Resignation as Clalit’s Director-General in 1988. Chapter 11 - Health Policy and Health Services Research: My Endeavors after Leaving Clalit …................ 97 Israel’s National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research; Efforts to Guide Health Policy Issues during My Tenure at Clalit’s Headquarters; A Sabbatical Invested in First Steps towards Founding a National Institute for Health Policy; The Center for Health Policy in the Negev; Establishing the National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research in Israel; The Work of the National Institute; Absorbing Immigrant Physicians from the Former Soviet Union; The School of Health Professions at Tel Aviv University.

Epilogue - Looking Towards the Future ..........................................................................................105

Photographs …...........................................................................................................................................106

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