The Healthcare System Of Japan

The health care system varies from country to country although a factor they all have in common is that great measures of research are taken in order to find results and achieve a good health care system for the economy. Between Australia and japan, there are great initiatives taken to help in association to this, including economic, social and political circumstances, all influencing the way in which the countries health care system is shaped and run.

Other statistical important values are the unemployment rate and life expectancy. The unemployment rate amount Japanese is 4.0%, whereas the United States is 7.4% (Find-the-data, 2015). This is one of the reasons the Japanese government is able to keep down costs. However, the average life expectancy of Japanese citizens is 83.33 years to U.S. 78.84 years, which would require Japan to care for their citizen’s longer (Find-the-data, 2015). This can financially impact the government with increased expenses and costs to an aging nation.

It is widely believed that the aging of the U.S. population is a major driver of the annual growth in the demand for health care and in national health spending

In Conclusion, the age of population is one of the challenges the United States faces. In this paper it was discussed how the demographics may have an impact on the health care market, how changes will affect health care such as increase in health care cost and increase in prescription drug cost. The ageing process will not stop therefore the population will continue to increase in the next

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the differences between the healthcare in East Asia and the United States. The paper will discuss government programs that each country offers its citizens, how certain countries have taken preventative measures for its people and how the health of people in Asian countries versus the U.S differs and some possible explanations for why this may occur. This paper will discuss many different countries because Asia has many developing countries and no country in Asia has developed at the same rate. Healthcare spending will be looked at in Asian countries and the U.S to see the differences in spending and how more or less spending benefits the population. Healthcare is a huge part of the world’s economy and as certain population age, like the U.S’s and Japan’s it will be up to the governments to decide how to deal with the aging population and how to ensure that the healthcare industry does not become a bubble. As the population ages, there will be a bigger demand for healthcare and programs to support the elderly. This is a problem that the United States will have to deal with by 2030 because all the baby boomers will be over the age of 65 by then and they will have their hands out for government programs that support them for healthcare. This essay will look at other countries and how they have handled the increasing demand for healthcare. The United States has only recently made healthcare affordably accessible to everyone, and still

Just like other parts of the world, the United States is no exceptional, it is an aging society. Between the year 2000 and the year 2050, the number of the elderly is predicted to increase by 135%. Again, the population of the persons aged 85 years and above, which is the group that will mostly require health and long-term services, is predicted to

In light of these new traits of the society, the health care sector must develop itself and address the new needs of the society. Furthermore, these new needs are not only shaped by the changes in the life style of the population, but other traits as well. For instance, at a demographic level, it is noted that the population ages at a rapid rate and requires more health care. Then, at an economic level, it is noted how the internationalized economic crisis poses new threats and limits the population's access to health care.

With all the focus our country has recently put on Healthcare I thought is necessary to look at a country which has used a Universal Health care model to understand where we as a country are heading and why so many people are opposed to it. For years I have heard that Japanese healthcare was one of the best in the world and known of people who would travel to Japan to receive treatment. Japan has been at the forefront of technology and it seems that the use of that technology has helped them advance in Health Care as well. In comparing both Japanese and American Health Care Systems I am hoping to find if Japanese Health Care is better than our American Health Care System.

Unlike many other health care systems, the cost for services does not change based on who gives care or where the care is given (Schabloski, 2008). There seem to be a lot of regulators that are a part of Japan’s healthcare system, potentially contributing to the success Japan has experienced in this field.

Health care in the United States is undoubtedly defective regarding covering any medical expenses of millions of americans. 25 million Americans have insurance that won't adequately cover their medical expenses. Around 643,000 go bankrupt and lose everything trying to pay their medical bills. 20,000 Americans die from not being able to pay for medical help along with not having insurance or having insurance that won't pay for anything. Undoubtedly, the United States need to make a change. The question is though, what model of health care should be adopted? With my understanding of several successful health cares from several different countries, Japan seems to be the best one in which we should follow.

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After the reconstruction in Japan social economic down fall in the post of WW II, the Japanese made a remarkable spring forth in becoming the world leading in life expectancy and egalitarian society. Given the life expectancy prior to 1946 for men and women respectively 42.8: 44.3 to 51.1 years (Bezruchka, Namekata, and Sistrom, 2008, p. 4), compared to present age of 79.6: 86.4 years for men and women respectively (WHO, 2010). The Japanese contemporary health benefit is due to the distribution of power and economic equality forced by democratic centralized government in unifying the nations (Bezruchka, et al., 2008, p. 589). NEED ONE MORE SENTENCE

The country I chose to compare to the Health Care System of the United States is Japan.

Japan’s political system remarkably mirrors that of the west, especially that of the United States. However, the method of how Japan’s politicians carry out their agendas and gather voter support takes place in backstage politics which has now prompted people to demand for a more transparent government that work for them and not for the game of politics. This backstage politics has caused a disconnection between the national leaders and the people that they represent because they now have to take into account the need of a particular group or person over the population they represent. Fortunately, there has been a growing movement in Japan where the people are starting to actively show their discontent and want for reform.

Suggestions have been made as to how to offset the decrease in population—increasing the immigrant population as well as incentives attempt to increase the birth rate. According to the living and human development index, Japan has very high standard of living in addition to the highest life expectancy and the infant mortality rate is 3rd lowest.