The health care system in modern Japan

Most postwar Japanese have relied on personal savings and the support of the family for health care, but as noted, the government and private companies do provide assistance as needed. The person who becomes ill in Japan faces several options, including a variety of religious-based and folk remedies; traditional healers such as herbalists, masseurs, and acupuncturists; and Western biomedicine, the latter of which has dominated Japanese medical care in the postwar period. Japan has public health services such as free screening examinations for particular diseases, prenatal care, and infectious disease control, and these are paid for by the national and local governments. Payment for personal medical services has been offered through a universal medical insurance system. It provides relative equality of access, with fees set by a government comm

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mophiliacs who had contracted it. Various levels of government responded to the introduction of AIDS into the heterosexual population by establishing government committees, mandating AIDS education, and advising testing for the general public without targeting special groups. A fund was established in 1988 to provide financial compensation for AIDS patients, and it is underwritten by pharmaceutical companies that distributed imported blood products (Dolan & Worden, pp. 124-125). FINANCES Shulkin (1991) points out that the Japanese system of health care delivery is not as good as the American system, where technology is better, treatment more comprehensive, and health education of a higher caliber. One area where the Japanese are clearly ahead is in financing the system, and the Japanese have found a way to provide universal health care at significantly less expense than the United States. Japan indeed, at a fraction of national revenues, spends less on medical care than any Western country, and with few restrictions and a fee-for-service system, Japanese patients have three times as many physician encounters at one-third the cost (p. 22). National health expenditures in Japan rose from one trillion yen in 1965 to over 1
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