Health Insurance: Foreign Countries May 10, 2010 at 1:43 pm
1. Health Insurance
Health insurance is composed of several layers of distribution by the service provider the various insurance providers (as surveyed in the report Commissioner of Capital Markets in 1988):
National Health Insurance – provides a basic level, a basket of services provided by the National Health Insurance Act on – by HMOs.
HMOs extend the basic basket of services and offer more service levels, such as choosing high amounts transplant surgeon.
Insurance companies extend the basic basket of services and offer more service levels and also provide another layer basic basket of services – private health insurance provided – by only safety, such as long-term care insurance.
Provide Basic:
Bealth services are included in the basket on the base – by the health funds in accordance with the National Health Insurance Law, medical discretion, of reasonable quality, within a reasonable time at a reasonable distance from the insured residence.
Every citizen who is interested in purchasing services information, such as a personal choice of the surgeon, availability, comfort and cover the full expenses for treatment in Israel and abroad, must purchase them separately supplemental insurance, which is another layer to cart base, sold for an additional charge of – by HMOs and insurance companies.
Other health services ( Here in “) at the box office patients:
Plans include a variety of funds covers patients with limited insurance amounts ceilings, and most services are provided in areas of choice for service providers agreement with the fund. The register is committed to the program include any member who wishes to join, regardless of economic or health condition.
Private Insurance Through an Insurance Company:
Company activity regulated by the law of the Insurance Business, which gives emphasis on Amidtan future obligations by the insured and the insurance contract law – a system regulated mouth relationship between the insured to the insurer. Join one of the characteristics of private health insurance is necessary underwriting – the process where the insurance company examines the properties of the potential risk of the insured, for example – by using the Declaration of Health. Underwriting process may result Lotiyakar policy specifically insured, or to include restrictions on certain coverage or coverage policy. We stress that when you fill the health declaration is important for full disclosure – not full disclosure when filling out health declaration may significantly affect the insurance coverage when necessary.
It should be noted that in private health insurance sold by insurance companies, are characterized by being a layer two and / or third party insurance State Health where all citizens are insured, the additional health services are sold on – by HMOs
and other property insurance sold by private health insurance companies
* Wide range of products makes it difficult to choose between the ability to compare different programs.
* Underwriting professional medical insurance when signing up.
* Insurance Long – term, which requires the insured at an informed decision on signing the deal.
* way – all policies are sold as a package of different covers, which are not always fully tailored to customer needs.
* policies include different types of insurance benefits (compensation or indemnification), throw on the nature of insurance benefits and the possibility of offset them.
Types of Private Health Insurance Products
Health insurance provide coverage of various types, following are the main means:
In private surgeries and / or abroad – choosing a surgeon, expenditure analysis, consultation prior to surgery, hospitalization and other expenses.
transplants special treatments abroad.
long-term care insurance.
Insurance illnesses.
disability insurance.
(explanations covers were surveyed in the report Commissioner of Capital Markets for 1999).
Types of Information:
Other covers are sold usually attaches health insurance policy, or as a chapter of basic health insurance policy . insurances are coming, for the most part, to fund medical services to complement the base cart, or added to fund services – those which are not included in it, are not irreversible damage, in terms of financial expenditure of the insured.
1. Ambultoreim services – medical services during that hospitalization, such as consultations with a specialist, treatments Fiziutrafeime Radiotrafeime or chemotherapy treatments.
2. alternative medicine treatments (alternative)
3. various tests – such as periodic tests, pregnancy tests, tests for children, imaging tests, and the like.
4. supplemental opinion (Second Opinion) – consultation Nuasach physician before surgery, including specialist abroad.
5. Medications – Financing the purchase of drugs not included in the basket base.
6. Dental Insurance – finance offer dental coverage (dental care are not included in the basket base at all), and usually independent policies are sold, and marketed as a group