Sunday, November 29, 2009

Israel has partial similar health insurance system as U.S., but the availability of services to their people was founded on need, not ability to pay. The ratio of physicians to 1000 persons is 4.6, one of the highest levels in the world and the health system has over 2000 community-oriented primary care clinics operated by the sick funds, the Ministry of Health or the municipalities. The Ministry of Health also operates and funds a successful community health service: a nation-wide public network of 850 mother-and-child-care centers, which offers low-cost easily-accessible services, health education programs, regular checkups to monitor child development and a comprehensive immunization program (newborn to 5 years). As the article mentioned all these health-prevented approach above, the U.S. health care reform could definitely learn to put more emphasize on prevented health programs and facilities, the community-oriented primary care clinics and the public network mother-and-child-care centers are the basic primary care access to people, the U.S. health care system could just simply follow these primary facilities ideas and then enhance the financing management of these facilities; with better primary care emphasize, the future health care cost of total population would have the chance to go down to help rationing the huge U.S. expenditure of health care and relatively poor quality.

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