Health system outraged: "The political situation will lead to a storm"

Health officials and politicians have expressed concern about the impact of the political situation on the system, in the background of the emerging election. A special committee for budgeting the medicine basket was held in the Knesset, and the Director General of the Ministry of Health said at the Health Policy Conference that, "The days are not easy, we are in the most challenging decade"

Health system outraged: "The political situation will lead to a storm"

Politicians and senior figures in the Israeli health system expressed concern on Wednesday about the effect of the political situation on the system, on the eve of the voting process for the dissolution of the 22nd Knesset, and the election is likely to run on March 2.

At the Dead Sea Conference held annually by the National Institute for Health Policy Research, Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Seaman Tov said the complex political situation seeps into the health system. "These days are not easy for the state and this complexity also permeates the health system. The system has entered the most challenging decade and this complexity has also been joined by the complicated political situation, "he said.

At a conference this year on a variety of healthcare organizations, providing health services to citizens and economic issues, Bar added a good sign that "the great concern is that a combination of all forces will lead us to a perfect storm. I believe we as a system can handle everything they set us, but the budget reserves go And diminishing. "

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Director General of the Ministry of Health Mr. Moshe Bar Seaman Tov, together with the head of the government hospital Dr. Orly Weinstein and the head of the medical department Dr. Vered Ezra arrived at Barzilai Medical Center to monitor the hospital's activity. Levi and his team (Photo: official website)

"The state can and should make the investments it needs in health, but we must not produce a discourse of collapse and failure. The right way to get resources is to express our excellence and not emphasize the hardship and the poor. We are in a state that is all in a slump and the public is tired of the calls for a future disaster. We have the public's attention in the discourse on collapse. We have difficulties but also capabilities, and just as the IDF does not lose wars to get a budget, so do we. The Israeli health system is a national and international pride. "

The office's CEO called to take action to implement a multi-year plan in the health system. "The health system deserves a multi-year plan that will allow planning ahead and bring the resources the system deserves. the thing
The most important thing is to create clear and well-known rules of the game. A state that will double its number of elderly in a decade cannot operate without a long-term plan. It is impossible to hope that it will be okay and hope that what has worked so far will work in the future as well. "

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Knesset emergency debate on drug basket budget crisis today (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Emergency debate in Knesset on drug basket crisis crisis December 11, 2019 (Photo: official website)

Against the backdrop of the collapse of the health system, Prof. Roni Gimzo, Ichilov's CEO and conference chairman, said: "The system is not collapsing but is challenged to the limit of its impossibility. When we look ahead, we see the population aging and so there will be erosion here In addition, we are seeing a decline in the proportion of doctors, although the Ministry of Health is working to increase their rates. "

Prof. Gamzo added: "The health system is not collapsing. There is no system that does not have difficulties and complexities and we have to keep in mind the strengths of our health system. The system is based on the ability of health funds to provide health services and they do it exceptionally."

Gamzo referred to the budget, saying: "If you curb government spending too much and don't plan ahead, spending will come from somewhere. It's not alchemy. In a state of aging and chronic disease, even a good health system can't stay at 5.7 percent. "National expenditure on health. If it does not come from broad and long-term planning, it will come from other bodies and empty the state health law and render it irrelevant. If we do not increase national health spending, it will increase in the private component and this is not necessarily true for our system."

"The State of Israel is a melting pot state. Citizens are required to take part in the security burden, and it does not settle with gaps in the most basic services. This gap destroys Israel's moral and moral resilience and a state cannot afford it. It is time to make adjustments in state health law. "Complex and difficult repairs need to be adopted that require courage. Like when the law was enacted 25 years ago, health funds, hospitals and the Ministry of Health had difficulties and it was inconvenient for anyone, so should be done now."

In the background of the dissolution of the Knesset and the political complexity, an emergency debate on the Knesset's drug basket

At the same time, the Knesset is holding an emergency hearing today on the crisis of the drug basket budget. Due to the political plunder, a dedicated budget has not yet been transferred to the basket committee, which must determine which drugs and treatments to subsidize in 2020. In recent days, it has been reported that a budget of NIS 500 million has been agreed, but no agreement has been reached between the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health. In the absence of funding, the basket committee will not be able to summarize its discussions.

Among the members of the committee was MK Itzik Shmuli (the Labor Bridge), the initiator of the committee, who declared that all Knesset members from all the parties had gathered around the demand for immediate budgeting of the drug basket. "Unfortunately, there is currently no guaranteed budget. What will we say when we see patients who need a life-saving drug and are forced to groom. What is said when we see waiting times. We have last hours until the Knesset dissipates, and unfortunately in the last few days all we get from the government is an argument that is all a disgrace between the Ministry of Health and the treasury that is done on your back. "

"An argument that is all a disgrace." MK Shmuli in the Knesset Special Committee, Today (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Itzik Shmuli during the Special Committee of the Knesset December 11, 2019 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The chairman of the Medical Histadrut Ze'ev Feldman, who also participated in the Knesset committee, said: "I think the voice of the people should be heard at the Knesset probably now. It is outrageous to say that the debate over the collapse of the health system has exhausted itself. We live within the system and see things on a daily basis even in surgical wards when you see patients lying in the hallway and then marveling that there are infections. We are here to help and support and say we need a supplement to the drug basket to care for our patients. Israel should be at the forefront of science to enable a cure for everyone. This imperative is moral. There are people in the room that make the decisions of this house their destiny. I don't settle for 500 million and I think the 700 million threshold should be met. "

Representatives of One of Nine Aid for Women with Breast Cancer through Volunteers participated in the Knesset Emergency Conference. The chairman of the association, Irit Pant, said that she herself was diagnosed as a patient at age 44, and only because of her early discovery is here today. The association said that "the decision makers owe their power to the public, and they must ensure the existence of the drug basket if they want to remain a Westernized state."