The Effect of a Redistribution System for Health Care for the Elderly on the Financial Performance of Health Insurance Societies in Japan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2009
Abstract
Health care for the elderly in Japan is financed through a pool to which all insurers contribute. We analyzed insurers' financial data to evaluate this redistribution system. Cost sharing affected financial performance substantially. The current formula for cost-sharing redistributes elderly health care costs unequally and should be changed.
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- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Summer 1998 , pp. 458 - 466
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998
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