TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campbell,John Creighton
AU  - Ikegami,Naoki
TI  - The art of balance in health policy: maintaining Japan's low-cost, egalitarian system 
SN  - 9780511984044 (ebook)
AV  - RA410.55.J3 C35 1998
U1  - 362.1/0952 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Japan
KW  - Finance
KW  - Cost control
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Low health care spending in Japan -- Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making -- Health care providers -- The egalitarian health insurance system -- The macropolicy of cost containment -- The micropolicy of cost containment -- The quality problem
N2  - Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. This book analyses how the health care works, and how it came into being. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee-schedule constrains costs at both the macro and micro levels. Special attention is paid to issues of quality and to the difficult problems of assuring adequate high-tech medicine and long-term care. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-containment policy, they also keep in mind the possible implications for reform in the United States. Egalitarian values and a concern for 'balance' among constituents, the authors argue, are essential for cost containment as well as for access to health care
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511984044
ER  -