With healthcare reform carrying center spotlight, it’s never a bad idea to look around and see what others are doing to provide healthcare for their 
citizens. This video shows people with dual citizenship who have experienced both, and granted the US is a much larger entity than Israel so our problem is larger of course.
One item worth mentioning is that everyone gets care, even though taxes are higher and based on income levels. One item they have in common with us in the US is the pay for physicians, a problem as some are talking about potentially looking elsewhere. Actually physician’s pay could become a global issue as just due to technology their job descriptions are changing rapidly. The physician of the future involves use of technology in all areas and thus with automation, as what has happened in other industries, the compensation goes down. In healthcare though, this is a very touchy area as the product is “us”, the people, so cutting costs and reassembling business models is not like and never will be like any other business.
There is competition from 3 or 4 HMOs for patients to choose from so there is access for all, the video explains the system in further detail. Again, last week at the Global Healthcare Tourism Conference, I learned that Israel is also looking to expand their market in this area as well. BD
Americans who hold dual Israeli-American citizenship often engage in the never ending ping-pong game of ““x” is better in the old country” – whichever country one may have emigrated from – to which the second or third generation native would volley “No, “x” is better here;” and so on. For the small stuff, the game generally ends in the Talmudic ‘taiku’ or draw. But for the big stuff, the issues that are approached in different ways in the two countries, we could learn from each other if only we would listen to each other and consider adopting that which is helpful.
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