War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction Pdf Reviews

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-05-13
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1421400685
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States pdf
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World War II forced extensive and comprehensive social and political changes on nations across the globe. This comparative examination of health insurance in the United States and Japan during and after the war explores how World War II shaped the health care systems of both countries.To compare the development of health insurance in the two countries, Takakazu Yamagishi discusses the impact of total war on four factors: political structure, interest group politics, political culture, and policy feedback. During World War II, the U.S. and Japanese governments realized that healthy soldiers, workers, mothers, and children were vital to national survival. While both countries adopted new, expansive national insurance policies as part of their mobilization efforts, they approached doing so in different ways and achieved near-opposite results. In the United States, private insurance became the predominant means of insuring people, save for a few government-run programs. Japan, meanwhile, c Download War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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