Kupat Cholim

If you recall, number one on misrad haklita’s Llist of things to do was to sign up for a health insurance provider. To do this, you take a letter from the m’ haklita and take it to the post office. After waiting forever until your number is called, you show them the letter and tell them which kupa you want. You show them your teudah oleh. Then you sign something, and if you have a spouse they sign it too. Then you bring it to your local kupa and take it from there.

Rachel and I wanted to do a lot of research before we chose the best health insurance. In the end, though, we went with Maccabi not based on a rigorous comparison, but based on numerous advantages in our situation. Maccabi is very close to our apartment, and they have general physicians we can see. Although there are technically four national health insurers, people say you pretty much choose between Maccabi and Klalit, because of their size and prevalence. We heard Maccabi was good, and when we went to their office to get information, a woman in line overheard us and told us that Maccabi was great and that she had switched from Klali. That helped convince us, and we decided just to go with it.

We’ll let you know how it works out.