Japan's new long-term care insurance
Japan's new long-term care insurance
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日本新的长期护理保险
DOI：
10.1016/s0140-6736(00)04849-2
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发表时间：
2001
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通讯作者：
Y. Arai
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作者：
Y. Arai
Under this care, the level of services provided would be keyed to the degree of a recipient's impairment. For example, people assessed as the most seriously impaired (level 5) are entitled to services worth 365 400 yen a month (UK£ 2149), with the obligation of a 10% co-payment.1 year later, how well has the insurance plan delivered on its promise of a worry-free old age to Japan's elderly and those entrusted with their care? Much of the Japanese media has declared the programme a failure. Headlines complain of recipients forced to bear a heavier economic burden than before. Newspapers finance so-called surveys that portray a similarly glum picture, in which 80% of respondents feel that co-payment discourages them from taking advantage of the full level of services to which they are entitled. However, the scientific validity of many such surveys is questionable, since they lack details about the methods used. Sampling bias, for example, could have eliminated many people who are satisfied with the programme, or simply undecided.
