Comments on: Health Minister: No Private Care in Public Hospitals

By: Huhhh

Huhhh — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:07:00 +0000

this is not as smart as it looks. It is well known that in the israeli health care system is substandard due to the government run kupat cholim. There is no incentive for a doctor to spend time and effort on a patient if he is getting paid the same anyway.
This sharap system (which is not that overly expensive) offered patients the ability to meet with a doctor who DID have an incentive to treat them nicely (i.e. so that they would return and pay him again.) The answers and information that were received and the just plain and simple “time” that was saved by the expedited sharap system was very much welcomed by many patients who were confused by conflicting reports they had already received by other uncaring doctors or (as witnessed by anyone who ever was in the sharap waiting room) by many of the elderly or people in painful or uncomfortable situations who couldn’t deal with the long (sometimes 10 hour!) wait times.
This will be very sorely missed, (and that i have written comes from experience)

By: ThinkingCap

ThinkingCap — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 05:17:10 +0000

The doctors visit is a often a precursor to surgery. Seeing a top specialist for diagnosis but Getting a mediocre surgeon for surgery is not a good solution for the patient. The committee at least in this news report didn’t address giving access to the top surgeons.

By: Yagel Libi

Yagel Libi — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 02:56:59 +0000

This is long overdue. Doctors have been making fortunes by using the resources of the public hospitals, funded by the public for the public’s benefit – for their own personal gain.