US and Japan Healthcare
Ok, let’s make this personal: Taro lives in healthcare exile.
While I have a ranch in Colorado, I cannot live there because I am denied real health insurance coverage. Because I’m handicapped, under the charming “preexisting conditions” exclusionary clause found in most health insurance policies everything that might be wrong with me can be construed as caused by that preexisting condition.
It sucks.
At least here in Land-of-Concrete(tm), aka Japan, I’m covered 100% under the national health insurance.
U.S. Healthcare Problem Too Big for Employers and Workers
Washington Outlook–
….GM now spends more than $1,500 on healthcare for each car it produces. That’s more than it spends on steel.
More importantly, that’s also significantly more than its key foreign competitors spend on healthcare. GM officials estimate that healthcare costs for Toyota are only about one-fourth as much per car, largely because the government pays more of the tab in Japan than in the U.S. …
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