Japan’s universal health care system could collapse unless the medical expense burden shouldered by elderly patients aged 75 or older is at least doubled, a senior official of a nationwide health insurance group has warned.
Corporate health insurance unions are facing “quite serious” financial conditions amid the country’s graying population, Masahiro Sano, vice chairman of the National Federation of Health Insurance Societies, or Kenporen, said in a recent interview.
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