Household Charge Rate of National Health Insurance

Nationwide Regional Difference and Analysis of the Charge Rates on Some Districts with Extremely High or Low Ones

Abstract

In Japan, about 40 % of households join in the National Health Insurance, and for us, the charge paid by the household is a matter of deep concern.
Studies on the household charge rate have been restricted to a few districts. Then, the author investigated all administrative districts (3, 272) of Japan, and made clear nationwide distribution. and regional partialities of charge rates. Districts below 50 % charge rate of medical care expenses occupy 89.7 % of those of whole Japan. Moreover, mechanisms of the extremely low or high charge rate were analyzed on some districts.