title: Israel's health policy breakthrough: the politics of reform and the reform of politics.
abstract: After decades of attempts, Israel has enacted a national health insurance law and begun to substantially change its health care system. I explore the conditions that enabled final passage of the law in light of theories of nonincremental change in pluralist policy systems. I also discuss the implications of this policy breakthrough for links between policy subsystems, leadership, and the establishment of a new policy equilibrium.
authors.affiliation: Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chinitz
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007557:Israel; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D018855:Single-Payer System