Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association

Japan is the fastest aging country, with the largest super-aged society in the world and growing larger by the day, yet its universal health care costs are relatively low.\n\nIn Health Insurance Politics in Japan, Takakazu Yamagishi draws back the curtain for an international audience and investigates how Japan has been able to control health care costs through health insurance politics.Covering the period from the Meiji Restoration to the Abe Administration, Yamagishi uses a historical institutionalist approach to examine the driving force behind the development of health insurance policies in Japan. Yamagishi pays special attention to the roles of government and medical professionals, the main actors of the policymaking and medical worlds, in this development. Health Insurance Politics in Japan pushes Japan into the spotlight of the international conversation about health care reform. Additional ISBNs 1501763512, 1501763490, 9781501763519, 9781501763496Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association is written by Takakazu Yamagishi and published by ILR Press. ISBNs for Health Insurance Politics in Japan are 9781501763502, 1501763504 and the print ISBNs are 9781501763519, 1501763512. Additional ISBNs include 1501763512, 1501763490, 9781501763519, 9781501763496.