Japan's Medical Care System

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Abstract
Japan's medical care system, remarkably inexpensive by American standards, has nevertheless entered an era of economic stress and incremental change as a consequence of efforts to address its most serious challenges. These challenges include medical expenditures that are rising more rapidly than the cost of other goods and services; a growing number of new practicing physicians, which the government is seeking to reduce; a hospital length of stay that averages 39 days (including both acute and chronic care); and heavy prescription of pharmaceuticals by physicians who order and dispense drugs far more frequently than do doctors in most other countries. . . .

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