Hadassah Hospital’s medical council said yesterday that it would oppose a proposed new national health insurance law on grounds that it would encroach on individual freedom. The council claimed the legislation would transfer governmental powers to the sick funds and to a national “health authority.” The major sick fund in Israel is Hupat Holim of Histadrut. Mrs. Chaika Grossmann, chairman of the Knesset’s public service committee, conceded on a television debate this week that the undeclared purpose of the proposed law was to eventually concentrate all health insurance in Histadrut’s sick fund.
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