With President Barack Obama's health care bill finally passed in the US, top US medical groups are looking to the Israel healthcare model to learn about the country's success in ensuring that all its citizens receive quality primary medical care.
The US-based Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) brought a group of physicians, health-policy analysts and insurers on a fact-finding visit to Israel as guests of the Myers-JDC Brookdale Institute, Israel's leading social and health-policy think tank. The purpose: To find out how Israel achieves universal coverage and excellent health care at low cost.
I would add that not just the US is needing help to sustain the astronomical health costs, in Portugal the public health sector costs 10.000.000.000 euros per year and has been constantly growing at fast rate (in 2010 budget it rose 10%), with no signs of stopping... That's way at TEDxEdges Algarve we will dedicate a special section to the health sector and will have speakers to talk about radical medical breakthroughs that will help us change the situation for the best. You can read more here:
Learning from Israel about healthcare | health
