Health Spending in Japan : Macro-Fiscal Implications and Reform Options /

Health spending has risen rapidly in Japan. We find two-thirds of the spending increase over 1990-2011 resulted from ageing, and the rest from excess cost growth. The spending level will rise further: ageing alone will raise it by 3 1\2 percentage points of GDP over 2010-30, and excess cost growth a...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Nozaki, Masahiro
مؤلفون آخرون: Kashiwase, Kenichiro, Saito, Ikuo
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/142
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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الملخص:Health spending has risen rapidly in Japan. We find two-thirds of the spending increase over 1990-2011 resulted from ageing, and the rest from excess cost growth. The spending level will rise further: ageing alone will raise it by 3 1\2 percentage points of GDP over 2010-30, and excess cost growth at the rate observed over 1990-2011 will lead to an additional increase of 2-3 percentage points of GDP. This will require a sizable increase in government transfers. Japan can introduce micro- and macro-reforms to contain health spending, and financing options should be designed to enhance equity.
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