<Article>Health Insurance Politics of Japan in the 1940s and the 1950s : The Japan Medical Association and Policy Development

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Health care reform has consistently been a heated political issue in Japanese politics. Japan began to take gradual steps to expand its health insurance system after it enacted the Health Insurance Law in 1922. It finally adopted the basis of the current legal structure of universal health insurance in 1958. The 1940s and 1950s were an especially critical period during which Japan solidified its health insurance system. Adopting the viewpoint of historical institutionalism this paper demonstrates what institutional and political contexts existed for stakeholders especially the government and the Japan Medical Association (JMA) to pursue their interests. Then it will help us to rethink what kind of political role the JMA played in the policymaking process and to understand how the Japanese health insurance system has grown as it has.

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  • 国際日本研究

    国際日本研究 9 193-204, 2017-02

    Master's and Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Tsukuba

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