Israel’s Health Policy Breakthrough: The Politics of Reform and the Reform of Politics
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
- Vol. 20 (4) , 909-932
- https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-20-4-909
Abstract
After decades of attempts, Israel has enacted a national health insurance law and begun to substantially change its health care system. I explore the conditions that enabled final passage of the law in light of theories of nonincremental change in pluralist policy systems. I also discuss the implications of this policy breakthrough for links between policy subsystems, leadership, and the establishment of a new policy equilibrium.Keywords
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