Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par ORSRA YR3R0xim. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Japan's universal health insurance system, which covers the country's 122 million population, is segmented according to workplace and living place. Although thousands of independent insurance societies exist, there are all integrated into the uniform framework mandated by the national government. The Japanese health financing system for all societies is based upon fee-for-service reimbursement under a uniform national price schedule. (...) With the coming of the 1980s, it became indispensable to re-organize the health insurance system because of the deterioration of the financial situation due to economic recession following the oil shocks in the 1970s and the rapid growth of health expenditures due to the ageing of society. The government and others concerned have taken a series of reforms with the focus on the following four issues : medical service supply system, medical fees, the drug price system and the medical care system for the aged. (résumé d'auteur).
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