Policy making at the margins of government : the case of the Israeli health system / by Yair Zalmanovitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zalmanovitch, Yair.

Series:

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--Israel.

Medical policy.

Medical care--Israel.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traces the almost century-long struggle between Israel's largest healthcare provider, Kupat Holim, and successive Israeli governments.

Contents:

Intro

Policy Making at the Margins of Government

Contents

Tables

Preface

1. Policy Making from the Margin

Part I: The Informal Preventive Veto

2. Kupat Holim in Prestate Days: 1911-1947

3. The Formative Stage: 1947-1949

4. Health as a Political Resource: The First Two Decades of Statehood

5. The Informal Preventive Veto

Part II: The Formal Preventive Veto

6. Accommodation Under Labor: Vision of Supervised Autonomy

7. Expropriation of the Allocation Process

8. Regulating Through Parity in Joint Regulatory Bodies and Through Informal Agreements

9. Restructuring the Health System

10. The Formal Preventive Veto

Part III: The Obstructive Veto

11. Exclusion Under the Likud: 1977-1984

12. Government Allocation as a Means of Control

13. Regulation as a Means of Control

14. Restructuring: National Health Insurance to Establish Government Authority

15. The Obstructive Veto

Part IV: The Erosion of the Veto

16. Erosion of the Veto

17. Stateness in Health

Appendix: Israeli Currency and Approximate Dollar Exchange Rates

Notes

Chapter 3: The Formative Stage: 1947-1949

Chapter 4: Health as a Political Resource: The First Two Decades of Statehood

Chapter 5: The Informal Preventive Veto

Chapter 6: Accommodation Under Labor: Vision of Supervised Autonomy

Chapter 7: Expropriation of the Allocation Process

Chapter 8: Regulating Through Parity in Joint Regulatory Bodies and Through Informal Agreements

Chapter 9: Restructuring the Health System

Chapter 10: The Formal Preventive Veto

Chapter 11: Exclusion Under the Likud: 1977-1984

Chapter 12: Government Allocation as a Means of Control

Chapter 13: Regulation as a Means of Control.

Chapter 14: Restructuring:National Health Insurance to Establish Government Authority

Chapter 15: The Obstructive Veto

Chapter 16: Erosion of the Veto

Chapter 17: Stateness in Health

Bibliography

Archival Sources

List of Interviewees

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.

ISBN:

9780791489604

0791489604

9780585455273

0585455279

OCLC:

61367506