Blue-blooded Finance Minister Taro Aso stirs up a debate on social welfare costs by complaining it's unfair his taxes are financing the medical costs of lazy people.
The government should give up its attempt to introduce mixed medical treatment and instead speed up the process for approving coverage and use of new drugs and medical technologies under the public health insurance system.
A new payment scheme for medical services under Japan's public health insurance may create fierce competition among doctors to monopolize patients.
Tea party-affiliated Republicans in the U.S. House are gearing up again, this time on a grander scale, to threaten action that will end up helping the other side.
The head of a clinic providing after-hours medical care in Tokyo’s Kabukicho entertainment district has been singled out by the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau for fudging his income and concealing ¥350 million of it, sources revealed Monday. Shuken Yamanaka, 52, who runs Asuka Clinic ...
Deep inside the White House, in a bare room that the chief of staff uses for meetings, David Simas is still thinking about turnout. As director of public-opinion research and polling for U.S. President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, Simas was at the center of ...
The mandate requiring U.S. employers to provide insurance for workers will not take effect until 2015.
