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Residents in Japan finance healthcare through paying taxes. Employers pay on top of employee contributions. As long as a person is able to work, they pay taxes and those taxes go towards covering care. Each plan has the same basic coverage benefits package and customization of plans are limited.

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Japans Universal Healthcare System does really well. However, care for the elderly are free and since the elderly are outliving the younger millenniums, soon, there will be no taxes collected and fees will outweigh the revenue coming in and going out from the governments set fee-schedule.

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Not only does Japan have the highest life expectancy in the WORLD, they also have the 2nd largest life insurance market

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U.S. Versus Japans Healthcare System

This video covers spending per capita for healthcare, expenditures, and key differences between our countries healthcare structure and Japan

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Comparing Health: United States versus Japan

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Looking at health differences between the US and Japan -- why does Japan have a longer life expectancy and a lower infant mortality rate when, among other things, the US spends more per capita on health?

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Healthcare Expense in Japan v.s. in the U.S.

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Healthcare Expense in Japan v.s. in the U.S.

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Compared to the U.S., Japan has the most affordable care

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Medication and drugs is a big problem in Japan.  There is a lot of over utilization because there is no control over prescriptions or amounts order per person. People are taking advantage.

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Japans Life Expectancy Continues to Grow

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Japans Life Expectancy Continues to Grow

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On an average, people can live as long as 83.10 years or more -Statistics from 2010

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Japanese Citizens have Mandatory Enrollment

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Japanese Citizens have Mandatory Enrollment

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There are over 2,000 insurers and over 3,000 providers for healthcare!
- Japans system of healthcare is similar to Germany
-Spend half per capita than we do in the United States

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Quality of Service, No Financial Fear, and No one is Left Behind

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Quality of Service, No Financial Fear, and No one is Left Behind

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With Universal Health Care Coverage:
1. Everyone who needs services should get them no matter if they are able to pay or not

2. Quality of health services should be good enough to improve the health of those receiving services

3. People should be protected against the fear of financial risk meaning no one should feel as if getting serviced would cause financial harm

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Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people and communities can use or have access to preventive, curative, and rehabilitative health services they need.

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Any specialist with no referrals
Identical Coverage
Paid by Taxes and matched by the employer
1 fee schedule for the whole country -Government Regulated

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President Obama is trying to bring a similar plan to America and Americans are against it?