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A Brief Note On The Japanese Health Care

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How do the Japanese have access to health care? The have universal access to health care anywhere

in Japan. Any Japanese person can go into a hospital or clinic and receive health care through health

care insurance provided by Japan or the population’s personal employers. All insurers are non-profit.

The Japanese Health Ministry keeps a tight hold on the control of cost on services in the health

industry (Batnitzky, Hayes, & Vinall, 2014). No insurer is allowed to deny someone a claim to see

health care.

The National Health Insurance covers all the bases, inpatient and outpatient care, home care, dental,

prescriptions, long-term care and prosthetics, but it doesn’t include a lot of preventive care for

routine physical exams, …show more content…

There are two main aspects on Japanese health

care. Employer’s pay for about 50 percent of health insurance for their employees, there are two

main employer health insurance groups. We have the society-Managed Health Insurance for

employees of large companies with more than 700 people working for them. For the smaller

companies we have the Japan Health Insurance Association-Managed Health Insurances. As you see

employer takes a about a 4 to 8 percent percentage from the employee’s salary to cover their health

insurance. The government then assists these types of insurance to render care to the population

(Jones, 2009).

National Health Insurance was made back in 1960 to assist the self-employed, elderly, students, and

the poor. The government pays a health insurance cost that contributes to these people who don’t

have an employer to back them in health insurance. The Japanese government contributes more

$10.9 billion in health care in 2005 to the NHI (Jones, 2009).

The elderly is a grown dilemma that is foreseen in the near future that might put a huge wrench in

their health insurance system. The expansive growth of the current senior population has grown to

21 percent and will be to 40 percent by 2050 (Henke, Kadonaga, & Kanzler; 2009). These are things

that they need to take into account. Part of their social security system was to bring about a reform

Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) to assist in the

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