The Japanese health system is among the world's cheapest. Even cheaper than Britain's!pic.twitter.com/gA6OtzMEOj
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The Japanese health system is among the world's cheapest. Even cheaper than Britain's!pic.twitter.com/gA6OtzMEOj
And it achieves this low expenditure despite having almost twice as many elderly people (relative to population) as the United States!pic.twitter.com/Fj5GfQO8Uv
Nevertheless, Japan has a very high quality of treatment - as good as the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan#Quality …
Could this all be due to diet?, you ask. Well, that certainly doesn't hurt: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/high-life-expectancy-in-japan-partly-down-to-diet-carbohydrates-vegetables-fruit-fish-meat-a6956011.html …
But obesity explains only a modest portion of the spending gap between Japan and the U.S.:https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/206-us-health-care-costs-are-caused-obesity/329327/ …
So how does this magical Japanese health care system work? Here's a comprehensive rundown: http://international.commonwealthfund.org/countries/japan/ …
Basically, Japan has govt pay 70% of everything (or more, for poor or chronically ill people). And private insurance pays the other 30%.pic.twitter.com/JW0QsCXOvl
The U.S. could approximate this system by simply extending Medicare - the current Medicare system, not Bernie's thing - to all Americans.pic.twitter.com/9KdF4l7MaI
Japan caps health care prices. But even without price caps, govt can do much the same thing using monopsony bargaining power.pic.twitter.com/9OMPmzRnB7
Meanwhile, high copays - especially a percentage system like Japan's - give the government a fiscal escape route.pic.twitter.com/70JZyBy7FN
Maybe an acceptable cost but I feel like this ends in Republicans pushing to raise copays and lower taxes every time they're in power.
They will! And sometimes that *might* even be the best thing for the country. In Japan they do this as well.
Maybe for the country as a whole, but I assume some would fall in an income gap where copays are onerous but they can't get subsidized care?
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