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[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:59:22PM +0300, sammy ominsky wrote:

> My wife bought a nutritional supplement from the US that's not  
> available here in the form she wanted.  It cost $50.  She got a notice  
> today that she will have to pay 187 shekels to pick it up ($56.25).

That's because we have socialized medicine and you can buy all the
nutritional suppliments they say you need at a discount from your HMO.

If she wants something that's covered here in a form they don't cover it, it's 
a considered a luxury item and taxed as such. :-(

At one time you could buy extra insurance from one of the HMO's that
covered any drug sold in the U.S. it was about $15 a month for a family.
Since the other HMO's did not cover it, they made it illegal. Their rational
was that 20% of the population could not afford the extra money so it was
not fair. 

I could not understand it, it would have been cheaper in the long run to 
have the state pay the extra $15 a month for 20% of the population than have
100% of the people that need drugs not covered here run up big bills for
alternative treatment.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM