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With the removal of the latest restrictions, the four HMOs told in a joint interview with Walla! " news News in Israel health "The next epidemic will come for sure. In Corona, it has been proven that the box office will know how to prepare for it best." With the removal of the latest restrictions, the four HMOs told in a joint interview with Walla! " Tags HMOs Clalit Health Services Maccabi Health Fund Leumit Health Care Services United Health Insurance Fund Ministry of Health Meirav Cohen


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"The next epidemic will come for sure. In Corona, it has been proven that the box office will know how to prepare for it best."

With the removal of the latest restrictions, the four HMOs told in a joint interview with Walla! "

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Meirav Cohen

Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 14:17 Updated: 14:18

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The last corona limit left in Israel - the obligation to wear masks in enclosed spaces, was abolished today (Tuesday). HMOs, which treated more than 90% of corona patients and operated effectively in the vaccination campaign, received little of the assessment received by the hospitals. Now, the four CEOs of the HMOs - Clalit, Maccabi, Leumit and Meuhedet, tell in a joint interview with Walla! About dealing with the epidemic in the past year and a half and their recommendations to the new Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz. The



CEO of

Clalit HMO

, Prof. Ehud Dodson, Emphasizes at the outset that an overwhelming majority of Corona patients were treated in the community, outside of hospitals. "There were more than 800,000 patients in the State of Israel, and only 4% of them were treated in hospitals," he clarified. "The vaccination campaign has changed the approach from a spotlight on hospitals to a look at the HMOs, and that's how everyone has seen the amazing capabilities of the healthcare system."



Dodson clarifies that the same capabilities were expressed against the background of a huge lack of budgets, and expresses hope that the newly sworn government will take care of this problem.

"We went into a crisis with a very starving system, but at once enterprising, distant and digital medicine has developed," he says, "yet with all the excellence of the system, we are short of money after years of starvation - we are talking about billions of shortages. I encourage "The basic premise of the new government is that they want to do what needs to be done and add budgets. Just as it is unthinkable to fill the Iron Dome warehouses with private coffers or leave them empty, so it is impossible to deprive the health system or neglect public medicine."

"It all depends on who will head the ministry."

Horowitz (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Dodson wants to set a new agenda for the Ministry of Health, with an emphasis on community medicine. "The new health minister needs to motivate the government for more budgets and then think about how to allocate the resources. We need to take care of both sectors - hospitals and community," he says.



During the epidemic, the HMOs sought to prevent policyholders from switching between HMOs, in order to focus on the epidemic and not on marketing. Now, they want to compare the prices of corona tests for travelers abroad. However, Prof. Dodson firmly states that there is no joint work of the funds. "Our advantage is that our doctors and nurses know the insured and can give them the best care. The competition between the box offices has become too aggressive. When you invest in marketing more than medicine - this is not what the taxpayer meant, it harms the quality of medicine and treatment. Our competitors are diverting budgets to things that are not in accordance with the law. I call on the Ministry of Health to impose sanctions. "

"Talk about billions of lack."

Dodson (Photo: Official Website, Rami Zranger)

Maccabi Health Services

CEO

Ran Saar will end his position as CEO after a decade, and will soon join the fund's board of directors.

According to him, the feelings in the past year and a half have been quite difficult, in terms of the official attitude towards the people in the system.

"Ordinary workers, doctors and nurses, were angry at the Ministry of Health for not being sensitive to what the community did and that they were chosen to light beacons on Independence Day by two employees from Clalit's hospitals."



"The next epidemic is sure to come, no one can predict when. In this epidemic it has been proven that the transparent hospitals knew how to better organize for the epidemic because they understood its mass aspect," Saar claimed. At the same time, he attacked the Ministry of Health's decisions on the subject, especially at the beginning of the crisis. "At first the Ministry of Health objected, but eventually realized that it needed to be hospitalized at home. A hospital is a small, limited and expensive place. So my lesson - when an epidemic breaks out you have to consult all parties. At the beginning of the crisis, unfortunately, we were not consulted and therefore wrong decisions were made. For example, in the corona tests conducted by MDA at the beginning, there were mistakes that caused confusion.



"" I did not understand the decision-making, because we, in the four funds together, do one hundred tests a day. All the cash registers routinely, we could have taken over that too. Also in the vaccination campaign they wanted to divide it between us and the hospitals and outside parties. The person who stopped this decision was the Prime Minister,Who realized very quickly our power, "he added.

"During the Corona period, it was proven that the sick of the sick knew how to better organize for the epidemic." Saar (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Saar is not moved by the competition between the box offices and claims that the aggressiveness is only on the margins. "Our position is that there is a need for competition, and that it praised the quality of the funds' service, both in the routine and in the corona period. Even in times of crisis - competition improves service. On the fringes, competition becomes aggressive, but more is made of it. Those who do not win complain about the competition. "In one day, the ministry decided to reduce the isolation from 14 days to ten days. We did everything we could to make sure that our patients were released within hours, in other funds it took several days."



In the shadow of the coronation's decline, Saar does not believe the health care system will be able to remain a top priority. "We are entering a deficit period, and I do not know what they will allow to open, in terms of the state budget. The Ministry of Health has always been biased towards hospitals. Until hospitals are privatized, and the ministry is a regulator and not a player - there will be no solution. It is unhealthy and improper." said.



Saar also has solutions and advice for the new health minister.

"If I were the regulator, I would ban hospitalization in the corridor immediately and thus improve the conditions of hospitalization, which currently do not make sense and are suitable for the third world," he argued.

"In addition, I would collaborate between the hospitals and the HMOs to increase home hospitalization. The first thing Horowitz needs to do is choose a creative, non-balloonic CEO, who knows both the hospital system and the community system.

We need to see how the patient-fund-hospital system is promoted with the help of futuristic medicine. "

"The vaccination campaign is considered heroic, but it was relatively easy"

The CEO

of the National Health Fund

, Haim Fernandez, thinks differently from his colleagues. "I think and feel that the Israeli public values ​​the funds and understands our work, both in the phase of dealing with the disease and in the vaccination phase. I think we got the right allocation of resources, and there were a lot of things that needed to be done in manpower, infrastructure and information systems - and for the most part we got an efficient and quick response.



"" It is important to maintain the health care system, along with the education system and environment. Emphasis should be placed on civic issues - because it affects our quality, "states Fernandez," so I think the necessary budgets should be invested there, and hopefully this is the direction of the new government. In addition, we need to focus on early detection and prevention, this is true from a health and economic point of view. "



Fernandez also emphasizes the development of treatment and hospitalization capabilities "to be stronger, before certain contraindications home hospitalization should be promoted, rather than in inpatient wards in hospitals. In the next decade the needs of the system will increase more than GDP growth, these trends will happen due to population demand and aging."

"In the next decade, the needs of the system will increase more than the increase in GDP."

Fernandez (Photo: Official Website, National Spokeswoman)

"Right now in Israel there is a bad balance between the private and the public, I think it is essential to increase the public service so that we do not have health for the rich," Fernandez stressed, "The new task of the new government - more resources and budgets. For me, I think we should meet a target of 70% in public funding in the next five years. We are currently at 60%. The funds do not have to go to unreasonable wage agreements, this is not something the Israeli public enjoys. The wage level in our system is very fair, along with stability. Employment. "



Leumit is the smallest of the four coffers, and Fernandez has been criticized by his colleagues. "Competition in the industry is critical, it motivates the funds to better service and work for the patients. In the Corona period we saw that there was a competition between us for optimal service and so it should be. The competition should be on quality, accessibility and deployment. Unfortunately the industry has become customer theft - all funds operate "Mechanisms to transfer customers from checkout to checkout. There's a public price here because I also put capital on customer transfers. I make fewer queues and early detection, and focus on importing customers. All the time and money is diverted to customer transfers to the point of customer theft. There is a system spin."



"In primary care, there is a war between funds over doctors. There are funds that tell doctors to work exclusively in a particular fund and this leads to an unhealthy and discriminatory transfer of insured persons. Doctors are given huge sums of money," warns Fernandez.

"The Ministry of Health needs to intervene in its tools and the sanctions at its disposal to deny listening and support to funds that do not comply with the rules. I call on the Ministry of Health to intervene because public health is harmed. We need to ask how much we want the funds to deal with just that."

"The system needs to get organized for the aging population."

Regev Rosenberg (Photo: Official Website, Rami Zranger)

The only woman currently working as the HMO's CEO is Sigal Regev Rosenberg, the CEO

of the United HMO

. She spares no criticism of the Ministry of Health, of the emphasis given to hospitals. "Both the Ministry of Health and the media realized that they made a mistake when they emphasized hospitals in the Corona period because it is better photographed, important and urgent, and so they manage to raise more money and standards. At the vaccination stage the correction came, but it was too small and too late. For the heroic operation, it was very easy for us because it is our routine. "



Regev Rosenberg claims that the bias occurs because most of the ministry's directors come from hospitals. "It all depends on who will head the Ministry of Health.

The system lacks long-term planning.

The population is aging, and there is a lack of education in preventive medicine and technologies.

There is a significant challenge here that costs money, if they do not point the budgets to the right place we will return to the bottom of the list of priorities.

It also depends on us as CEOs, if we cooperate with each other and recruit everyone with us, we may be able to make a significant change. It depends on the character of the CEO we are currently looking for.

The first task of the new minister - needs a change of CEO who will come from the community, and not from a hospital, to bring in a CEO who knows the whole system.

Need to build a strategy, be strong in front of the treasury.

If not - we will continue to quarrel between the funds and the hospitals and we will be in the same place in five years' time. "

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"Crossings between the funds should have remained open even during the Corona period, such as by telephone or in communication networks. I do not think patients should have been prevented from switching during the epidemic," states Regev Rosenberg, but warns, "competition between funds has become dangerous and has no proper standards. "The added value to the customer will be negative. There is no responsible adult who handles the aggressiveness of the competition - there are funds that exploit the weakness of the Ministry of Health because of the corona."



It sets a vision for the next decade in the healthcare system. "The system needs to get organized for the aging population. In addition, work hard on prevention and make more collaborations between hospitals and health funds. Another thing that needs to be thickened is the digital array. In the Corona period, when people could not come, it gave us the best answer. "Standing alone, the goal is to make it a help for frontal medicine, not a center. When everything is combined correctly, it gives the right answer and puts the patient at the center."Regev Rosenberg concludes.

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