The question of whether to permit private medical services (dubbed SHARAP) in government hospitals is one of the most controversial issues in Israeli health care today, with parallels in European countries. Under the Israeli National Health Insurance Law, all residents that are entitled to free...

The decisions and actions of health care professionals have a major impact on such health care outcomes as cost, quality and equity. It is widely believed that professional behavior is determined, in part by how and how much they are paid. Professionals can respond to reimbursement incentives at...

Abram Bergson is best known for his monumental work of creating the methodology and estimating Soviet GNP, its structure and its rate of growth. This work culminated but did not end with his 1961 Volume on The Real National Income of Soviet Russia Since 1928. The present paper is devoted to...