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The other is Employees' Health Insurance (健康保険, Kenkō-Hoken). National Health insurance is designed for people who are not eligible to be members of any employment-based health insurance program. Although private insurance is also available, all Japanese citizens, permanent residents, and any non-Japanese residing in Japan with a visa ...
The Japan Health Insurance Association-Managed Health Insurance (JHIAHI) is for employees within small firms. The government provides 13% of the health payments through subsidies while employees and employers pay 8.2% of their wages. The National Health Insurance (NHI) is the remaining category for self-employed and retired individuals.
Faroe Islands: 564 Greenland: 551 Andorra: 491 Saint Kitts and Nevis: 466 Cayman Islands: 351 Sint Maarten: 347 Turks and Caicos Islands: 342 American Samoa: 334 Liechtenstein: 300 Marshall Islands: 271 San Marino: 270 Caribbean Netherlands: 258 Saint Martin: 255 Gibraltar: 250 British Virgin Islands: 233 Northern Mariana Islands: 212 Palau: 204
A list of countries by health insurance coverage. The table lists the percentage of the total population covered by total public and primary private health insurance, by government/social health insurance, and by primary private health insurance, including 34 members of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries.
Those who make below a certain income must use the public health insurance, and public health insurers are forced to accept them. Those are compulsorily insured (pflichtversichert), and can choose either the private or the public system. Private health insurance is only available to freelancers, high earners and certain other categories. [172]
Social expenditure of Japan Comparison of healthcare spending and life expectancy for some countries in 2007. In 2008, Japan spent about 8.2% of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP), or US$2,859.7 or 405,737.84 Yen per capita, on health, ranking 20th among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A missing Dutch tourist was found dead early Saturday on the eastern Greek island of Samos, local media reported, the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists ...
This is a list of Japanese disasters by their death toll. Included in the list are disasters both natural and man-made, but it excludes acts of war and epidemics. The disasters occurred in Japan and its territories or involved a significant number of Japanese citizens in a specific event, where the loss of life was 30 or more.