“And for most people, the insurance comes from a job that you can never afford to lose... But if you get sick enough, they may have to let you go, since you can't come in anymore. And there goes your coverage”. Unbeknownst to mostly Japanese, this is true in Japan as. Receiving benefits from the national health care scheme is dependent …
“And for most people, the insurance comes from a job that you can never afford to lose... But if you get sick enough, they may have to let you go, since you can't come in anymore. And there goes your coverage”. Unbeknownst to mostly Japanese, this is true in Japan as. Receiving benefits from the national health care scheme is dependent upon paying premiums, which stop once one is let go. Such people can still receive benefits if they go to the city office and make payments out of pocket. Extremely few know of this. In my experience, only those who have gone through it, and I would hope, those close enough to them to learn of their plight. Without income, this quickly becomes a drain on the family finances.
I know people here in Japan denied acceptance into hospitals despite being covered. I know people who have lost babies because of this. Meanwhile, in the US, my niece was severally injured in an auto accident that took her mother’s life. She survived because a helicopter landed on the highway to pick her up and transport her to a trauma center in another State. I have no idea where the money for treatment came from as her father, my brother, was and remains of extremely modest means. If my son suffered similar injuries here in Japan, his chances of survival, despite 20 years after my nieces crash, would be next to zero as the ambulance crew would have to find a hospital in our prefecture that had a pediatrician on duty that was not with another patient. Pediatricians are paid less than doctors in most other fields and are overworked, thus few in number. Those I know about have had to wait for over an hour before admission to a hospital. I have read stories of similar in Canada and the UK. For reasons that I will never understand, the systems that offer next to zero reliable care for accident victims are praised to high heaven by those who live under them and those who do not. No one needs to pay huge sums of money out of every paycheck just so they can get a physical check up for “free” and long waiting lists for routine procedures. What is needed form medicine is not care for lifestyle choices, but urgent care for those who are injured or suddenly fall ill. Single payer systems of Canada, the UK and Japan and I’d bet many others fail miserably in this regard, negating any perceived benefit from them and at a cost of bankrupting the entire nation. No thanks.
“And for most people, the insurance comes from a job that you can never afford to lose... But if you get sick enough, they may have to let you go, since you can't come in anymore. And there goes your coverage”. Unbeknownst to mostly Japanese, this is true in Japan as. Receiving benefits from the national health care scheme is dependent upon paying premiums, which stop once one is let go. Such people can still receive benefits if they go to the city office and make payments out of pocket. Extremely few know of this. In my experience, only those who have gone through it, and I would hope, those close enough to them to learn of their plight. Without income, this quickly becomes a drain on the family finances.
I know people here in Japan denied acceptance into hospitals despite being covered. I know people who have lost babies because of this. Meanwhile, in the US, my niece was severally injured in an auto accident that took her mother’s life. She survived because a helicopter landed on the highway to pick her up and transport her to a trauma center in another State. I have no idea where the money for treatment came from as her father, my brother, was and remains of extremely modest means. If my son suffered similar injuries here in Japan, his chances of survival, despite 20 years after my nieces crash, would be next to zero as the ambulance crew would have to find a hospital in our prefecture that had a pediatrician on duty that was not with another patient. Pediatricians are paid less than doctors in most other fields and are overworked, thus few in number. Those I know about have had to wait for over an hour before admission to a hospital. I have read stories of similar in Canada and the UK. For reasons that I will never understand, the systems that offer next to zero reliable care for accident victims are praised to high heaven by those who live under them and those who do not. No one needs to pay huge sums of money out of every paycheck just so they can get a physical check up for “free” and long waiting lists for routine procedures. What is needed form medicine is not care for lifestyle choices, but urgent care for those who are injured or suddenly fall ill. Single payer systems of Canada, the UK and Japan and I’d bet many others fail miserably in this regard, negating any perceived benefit from them and at a cost of bankrupting the entire nation. No thanks.