Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan

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Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction  1
David A. Wise

1. Evaluating Japan's Healthcare Reform of the 1990's and Its Efforts to Cope With Population Aging  17
Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki, and Wataru Suzuki

2. The U.S. Medical System for the Elderly  43
David M. Cutler and David A. Wise

3. An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem  69
David M. Cutler

4. Removing the Instability and Inequity of the Japanese Insurance System  83
Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda, Makoto Kawamura

5. The Volume-Outcome in Japan: The case of Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Volume on Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Patients  113
Koichi Kawabuchi and Shigeru Sugihara

6. Market Concentration, Efficiency, and Quality in Japanese Home Help Industry  147
Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki

7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for Heart Attack Patients  165
Haruko Noguchi, Yuichiro Masuda, Masafumi Kuzuya, Akihiko Iguchi, Jeffery Geppert, and Mark McClellan

8. Geography and the Use of effective Health Care in the United States  195
Jonathan Skinner

9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience  209
Kathleen McGarry

10. Conjoint Analysis to Estimate the Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Japan  229
Seiritsu Ogura, Wataru Suzuki, Makoto Kawamura, and Tomatsu Kadoda

Contributors  247
Author Index  249
Subject Index  253