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Tag: Knesset

Higher health taxes means you’re earning a high salary

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024Arsen Mayer

The Knesset Health Committee has decided to alter its February 19 decision to raise monthly health taxes by a uniform rate for all Israelis and instead charge more for higher-income residents and less for those with lower incomes.  Committee chairman MK Yoni Mashriki, who asked for this amendment, said that up to 60% of the […]

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Push to charge for psychiatric emergency room visits causes outrage

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024Arsen Mayer

The intention of the Health and Finance Ministries to charge people who come to a psychiatric emergency room NIS 600 to NIS 800 for treatment aroused the ire of the Knesset Health Committee on Monday.  Acting committee chairman (United Torah Judaism) MK Moshe Roth declared: “There is no place for such a fee, and the […]

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Push to charge for psychiatric emergency room visits causes outrage

February 26, 2024February 28, 2024Arsen Mayer

The intention of the Health and Finance Ministries to charge people who come to a psychiatric emergency room NIS 600 to NIS 800 for treatment aroused the ire of the Knesset Health Committee on Monday.  Acting committee chairman (United Torah Judaism) MK Moshe Roth declared: “There is no place for such a fee, and the […]

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Around 100,000 Israeli IBD sufferers and too few specialists

February 20, 2024February 20, 2024Arsen Mayer

The number of Israelis currently diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a serious chronic gastroenterological condition, is about 70,000, but by the end of the decade, it is estimated to rise to 100,000. The standard is one doctor per 400 patients, but in reality, each gastroenterologist takes care of 1,000 people. The Knesset Health Committee, […]

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Knesset updates list of cosmetics containing carcinogenic substances

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024Arsen Mayer

An updated list of cosmetics that contain cancer-causing substances has been updated by the Knesset Health Committee following the addition of carcinogenic products in cosmetics by the European Union. Or Eldar of the Health Ministry’s legal office explained that about six months ago, the European Union Commission published an update to the list of substances […]

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Knesset considering law to digitize transfer of medical files

January 10, 2024January 10, 2024Arsen Mayer

To cut red tape and speed the transfer of the medical files of patients who switch from one health fund to another, the Knesset Health Committee will unify private member bills with a proposal by the government. Such a bill was presented by Shas MK Yonatan Mashriki, the committee chairman, and Yesh Atid MK Ron […]

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