[[{"content_id":"125677","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Israel's health system in critical condition","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2014-12-12 13:39:50","content_summary":"Health care deficit at record high, but Knesset's dissolution halts funds to save hospitals from collapse; administators 'at a loss.'","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"The Israeli health system is hundreds of millions of shekels in the red; and because the state budget is on hold due to the dissolution of the Knesset and the pending election, the hospitals will not be receiving the funds that were supposed to save them from collapse.\r\n\t\r\n\t"We all adhered to our work program, yet we're still going to be hit by a deficit," said Prof. Gabi Barbash, the director of Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital.\r\n\t\r\n\t"How can a vital system like the healthcare system be left without a responsible and experienced adult who knows how to conduct talks with the treasury?" For several months now, government hospital administrators have been warning of severe budgetary problems.\r\n\t\r\n\tUntil now, the state has been forced to subsidize their deficits to the tune of NIS 600 million every year; this year, however, the deficit has swelled significantly and now amounts to some NIS 1.5 billion.\r\n\t\r\n\tWith the deficit now bigger than ever before, the political reality has only exacerbated the problem: The upcoming election means there's no budget with which to begin 2015; the hospitals are being left with no chance of receiving the money they were promised to prevent them from collapsing; and Health Minister Yael German has resigned in the wake of the dissolution of the government.\r\n\t\r\n\tOn Tuesday, following an emergency meeting at Ichilov Hospital, hospital administrators warned of a fatal blow to the health system.\r\n\t\r\n\tAccording to the directors, the reasons behind the increase in the deficit are the wage hikes received by doctors and nurses, the fall in the rates the health maintenance organizations pay to the hospitals, and more.\r\n\t ","content_html":"

\r\n\tThe Israeli health system is hundreds of millions of shekels in the red; and because the state budget is on hold due to the dissolution of the Knesset and the pending election, the hospitals will not be receiving the funds that were supposed to save them from collapse.
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\r\n\t"We all adhered to our work program, yet we're still going to be hit by a deficit," said Prof. Gabi Barbash, the director of Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital.
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\r\n\t"How can a vital system like the healthcare system be left without a responsible and experienced adult who knows how to conduct talks with the treasury?" For several months now, government hospital administrators have been warning of severe budgetary problems.
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\r\n\tUntil now, the state has been forced to subsidize their deficits to the tune of NIS 600 million every year; this year, however, the deficit has swelled significantly and now amounts to some NIS 1.5 billion.
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\r\n\tWith the deficit now bigger than ever before, the political reality has only exacerbated the problem: The upcoming election means there's no budget with which to begin 2015; the hospitals are being left with no chance of receiving the money they were promised to prevent them from collapsing; and Health Minister Yael German has resigned in the wake of the dissolution of the government.
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\r\n\tOn Tuesday, following an emergency meeting at Ichilov Hospital, hospital administrators warned of a fatal blow to the health system.
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\r\n\tAccording to the directors, the reasons behind the increase in the deficit are the wage hikes received by doctors and nurses, the fall in the rates the health maintenance organizations pay to the hospitals, and more.
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