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5. INTRODUCTION OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN JAPAN
The health care system in Japan provides healthcare services, including
screening examinations, prenatal care and infectious disease control, with the
patient accepting responsibility for 30% of these costs while the government
pays the remaining 70%. Payment for individual health facilities is offered via
a worldwide fitness care guarantee scheme that delivers comparative equality
of admission, with costs set by a government committee. Hospitals, by law,
must be run as not-for-profit and be succeeded by doctors. For-profit
companies are not allowable to own or control clinics. Clinics must be owned
and run by doctors.
Long Life Health Care System.
The insurance carrier then remunerates the doctor, hospital, clinic, or other
medical care provider directly for the remainder on a fee for-service basis as
determined by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. This universal
medical care insurance system gives all citizens access to adequate medical
care, thus contributing greatly to their peace of mind and to the overall level of
health in society. The percentage of Japan’s population aged 65 or over
was 7% in 1970. Just 41 years later, in 2011, it was more than 23.2%. As
of April 2011, Japan had 29.76 million elderly people. Today one in every five
people is 65 years or older, and in 2050 the ratio will likely be one in three. In
2008, medical expenditures of this group totalled 18.99 trillion yen, or 54.6%
of the total
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