Quality of health care

This constitutional right has led to a national health-care system, whereby three fourths of all medical care is financed through a social health insurance system. Since 1961, health-care coverage has been universal to all citizens, with cost-sharing requirements that are in aggregate less than those in the United States and a guarantee against catastrophic loss in the case of severe or prolonged illness. www.canadian-familypharmacy.com The Japanese system labels any health-care facility with > 20 beds as a hospital. The system allows small private clinics providing varying degrees of acute-care capability to qualify under this umbrella as a hospital facility. Consequently, there are > 10,000 institutions classified as hospitals in Japan. Approximately 7,500 are privately administered and 2,500 are public facilities, nearly twice that found in the United States, which has a population double that of Japan, Typically, it is the larger public institutions, with affiliations to the 80 Japanese medical schools, serving as major referral centers, that are responsible for a significant proportion of the critical care delivery provided throughout the country.