Penelope
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- Jul 15, 2014
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But they still advertise like they don't. From IFCJ, now deciding between medical care and food is something many seniors and the poor in the US have to worry about. I am suggesting keeping your charity in the US for Americans, because those in Israel do not need it.
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Deciding between medical care and daily food is a harsh reality every day for Miryam. Living in Israel at 80 years old, Miryam is battling cancer but also has two disabled sons who need constant medical attention. Sadly, her meager pension is no match for her medical bills and expenses.
As a result, Miryam cannot afford food each day, much less the special foods needed to observe Passover with dignity and hope.
No one should have to do this — and certainly not a poor, elderly Jewish widow with disabled children! It is heartbreaking that without you, Jews like Miryam would go hungry, suffer alone in sickness, and be unable to provide for their families.
Fellowship friends like you have answered the prophet’s call to “comfort ye, comfort ye my people” (Isaiah 40:1, KJV) and now, with little time left before Passover, we must do everything we can for impoverished and elderly Jews like Miryam and who need God’s blessing.
An Impossible Decision to Make
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In 1995, Israel passed a national health insurance (NHI) law, which provides for universal coverage. In addition to financing insurance, government provides financing for the public health service and is active in areas such as the control of communicable diseases, screening, health promotion and education, and environmental health, as well as the direct provision of various other services. It is also actively involved in the financial and quality regulation of key health system actors, including health plans, hospitals, and health care professionals.
Who is covered and how is insurance financed?
In 2015, national health expenditures accounted for 7.5 percent of GDP, a figure that has remained stable during the last two decades. In 2015, 62 percent of health expenditures were publicly financed, a share that is one of the lowest among Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) countries. (The Israeli figure is down from 63.5% in 2010 and 68% in 1995.)
Publicly financed health insurance: Israel’s NHI system automatically covers all citizens and permanent residents (aside from soldiers, who receive health care directly from the army).
Exemptions & Low-Income Protection
Quarterly out-of-pocket caps for drugs for the chronically ill, and age-, income- and health-status-related discounts; copayment exemptions for holocaust survivors; age-, income-, disability- and health-status-related exemptions on copayments for specialist consultations; reduced health tax (3% instead of 5%) for people with low incomes
Israel : International Health Care System Profiles
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Deciding between medical care and daily food is a harsh reality every day for Miryam. Living in Israel at 80 years old, Miryam is battling cancer but also has two disabled sons who need constant medical attention. Sadly, her meager pension is no match for her medical bills and expenses.
As a result, Miryam cannot afford food each day, much less the special foods needed to observe Passover with dignity and hope.
No one should have to do this — and certainly not a poor, elderly Jewish widow with disabled children! It is heartbreaking that without you, Jews like Miryam would go hungry, suffer alone in sickness, and be unable to provide for their families.
Fellowship friends like you have answered the prophet’s call to “comfort ye, comfort ye my people” (Isaiah 40:1, KJV) and now, with little time left before Passover, we must do everything we can for impoverished and elderly Jews like Miryam and who need God’s blessing.
An Impossible Decision to Make
and:
In 1995, Israel passed a national health insurance (NHI) law, which provides for universal coverage. In addition to financing insurance, government provides financing for the public health service and is active in areas such as the control of communicable diseases, screening, health promotion and education, and environmental health, as well as the direct provision of various other services. It is also actively involved in the financial and quality regulation of key health system actors, including health plans, hospitals, and health care professionals.
Who is covered and how is insurance financed?
In 2015, national health expenditures accounted for 7.5 percent of GDP, a figure that has remained stable during the last two decades. In 2015, 62 percent of health expenditures were publicly financed, a share that is one of the lowest among Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) countries. (The Israeli figure is down from 63.5% in 2010 and 68% in 1995.)
Publicly financed health insurance: Israel’s NHI system automatically covers all citizens and permanent residents (aside from soldiers, who receive health care directly from the army).
Exemptions & Low-Income Protection
Quarterly out-of-pocket caps for drugs for the chronically ill, and age-, income- and health-status-related discounts; copayment exemptions for holocaust survivors; age-, income-, disability- and health-status-related exemptions on copayments for specialist consultations; reduced health tax (3% instead of 5%) for people with low incomes
Israel : International Health Care System Profiles
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