Problems, Solutions, Non-Solutions, and Free Medical Care for the Elderly in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2858034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Creighton Campbell |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2758385 |
| OpenAlex | W2321760306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
I N 1973, the Japanese government, despite its conservative composition and general reputation for backwardness in social policy, decided to pay all the medical and hospital costs for nearly everyone aged 70 or over. Ten years later, in the midst of an apparent fiscal crisis, it enacted a Health Care for the Aged Law which purported to restrain costs and to establish a new health maintenance system, although in fact it did neither. The purpose of this article is to describe how bureaucratic, interest-group, and party politics interacted with social problems and policy solutions within shifting economic environments to produce these two fascinating decisions
Family medicine · Medical care · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2022 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |