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Many patients die at home while waiting for a bed.
Tax incentives should be offered for paying geriatric insurance premiums to private companies, thus reducing costs and providing a higher level of care, Menirav said. Of 14,500 geriatric beds, only 1,100 are in government institutions, and only 200 or 300 are unlicensed - far below the figures given in the position paper. Rasooly maintained that only 500 elderly are waiting for beds and that they wait only a month or two for admission. There is no magic solution, but health funds should be responsible for geriatric services, as the National Health Insurance Law originally stipulated. Some say, let's privatize everything, because the government interferes with things.