Thus, despite the fact that many persons in need will not be able to afford private health care services and are not in competition for the same, the presence of two parallel systems – the public and the private – may very well sow the seeds of its own inadequacy, so to speak. [...] - 6 - Patients The development of private services, including private health insurance, alongside public services, leads to loss of trust in the public system on the part of patients, to the preference for private over public health services, and to the purchase of private health insurance policies and private healthcare services by those persons who can afford them (and also by some who cannot --. [...] A solution proposed by the German Committee (named after its chair, then Minister of Health Yael German) for the Strengthening of the Public Health System in Israel (2014), and more recently by the Ash Committee (2022), was to pay higher salaries to physicians committing to work exclusively in the public health sector. [...] - 13 - his new capacity was lessened by the knowledge that the private medical centers he helped to set up and then headed intended to provide services to the public sector through Form 17, just as the Assuta Medical Centers did.24 According to Professor Shuki Shemer, Chairperson of the Assuta Medical Centers, 80% of the activities of the Assuta hospitals and clinics actually service the public he. [...] The corporations are separate legal entities, though the chairperson of their Boards of Directors are usually the hospital directors; the corporations engage in research and fundraising, and they are utilized to increase the salaries of hospital employees.33 According to the most recent Ministry of Finance report on salaries in public hospitals, most medical personnel receive salary increments fro.
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