Needs, expectations and public knowledge concerning services outside the medical basket: A lesson from Israel

Quality of and access to medical care are strongly related to the medical basket, the set of services covered under the national health insurance system. Various health systems offer institutional solutions to cover services that are not included in the basket in rare cases. In Israel, patients whose medical needs are not covered under the medical basket may apply to committees for exceptional cases which are run by all health funds.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Sperling, Daniel
Published in:	Health Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0168-8510. - Vol. 117.2014, 2, p. 247-256
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Access to medical care \| Universal coverage \| Committees for exceptional cases \| Medical basket \| Israel

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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