Due to the survey of business news
and financial information company Bloomberg, the Israel has been ranked
fourth in the world in term of efficiency and due to its healthcare
system. Just among 48 countries that being surveyed, the highest three
are Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. The criteria over this rank,
depending to the larger Israelis long average life span of 81.8 years,
also the country moderate expenditure on health service of total GDP at
7.8%. At least 5 million residents, all countries surveyed a GDP per
capita is greater than $5000 and at least 70 years life expectancy for
residents. There were three criteria that become a main based deal by
Bloomberg, per capita expenditure on health service of 10% final score,
namely life expectancy 60% final score also per capita expenditure on
health service GDP 30% final score, and along with Israel the other top
10 countries like Singapore, Australia and Switzerland were largely
characterized by state-funded universal healthcare systems. And near to
the bottom list of 46 was the US which mandated universal coverage under
the Obama administration. It is not the first rank of Israel over its
healthcare system, due to Bloomberg in last March Israel was ranked
fifth out of 36 member countries in OECD's Good Living Index.
By
2012 an OECD delegation were visited Israel and complimenting for the
local healthcare maintenance organization for their exceptional
efficiency in the term of diagnosing and treating patient with chronic
illnesses and preventing from the repeated hospitalizations. But at that
time the local hospitals were received low marks from delegation and
were stated on the report to increase the efforts of improving quality
also monitoring of the treatment that being provided. Actually, the
Israeli healthcare system is characterized by its economic efficiency
that stems, but for other reason, just from small number of HMOs, the
prices and strict regulation were being controlled by government. With
the 80% of population belonging to the two largest, citizen in Israel
should have basic insurance coverage at one of the country's four HMOs
