title: The dew of Jerusalem: the Israeli health care system.
abstract: The Israeli health care system is more advanced than the American system in its universal coverage, its financing mechanism, and in its implementation of a managed competition process. Yet, it trails American developments in management of inpatient and outpatient services and in the creative design of provider reimbursements. An MCO executive provides his observations from a trade/study mission to this Middle Eastern country.
authors.affiliation: NYLCare Health Plans of the Mid-Atlantic, Greenbelt, MD, USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Emerson
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D005380:Financing, Government; D005102:Health Expenditures; D007557:Israel; D018854:Managed Competition; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019472:Universal Health Insurance