Suit Against Ministers Over Supplementary Travel Health Insurance

Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik and the health funds demanding that the Arrangements Bill not include any mention of supplementary health insurance provided by the insurers.The inclusion of a prohibition against the health funds offering supplementary health insurance that provides medications not included in the official basket of health services, the plaintiffs said.

the issue can be discussed seriously and not pushed through on the whim of the Finance Ministry with Health Ministry approval, they argued.While 70 percent of the population have taken out supplementary health insurance for dozens of shekels per month per person, most of the others can't afford health policies from private insurance companies.

Ben-Yizri earlier this year allowed Maccabi Health Services and Clalit Health Services to offer extra medications with their supplementary health insurance policies.which involves life-and-death matters, to be voted on without an in-depth discussion in Knesset committees - especially when the state has so far failed to take responsibility for satisfactory updating of the basket of health services.