Public legitimacy of healthcare resource allocation committees: lessons learned from assessing an Israeli case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Health Insurance Law enacted in 1995 stipulates a list of health services to which all Israeli residents are entitled. For the past 20 years, the list has been updated annually, as a function of a predetermined budget, according to recommendations from the Public National Advisory Committee (PNAC), which evaluates and prioritizes candidate technologies. We assessed the legitimacy of this resource-allocation process as reflected in Israeli public discourse and its congruence with the accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework.

Methods

A qualitative analysis of public discourse documents (articles in the print media, court rulings and parliamentary debates (N = 119) was conducted to assess the perceived legitimacy by the Israeli public of the PNA

SUBMITTER: Assor Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161764 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature