Financials
Japan’s average annual healthcare spending per person is much lower — closer to this amount.
What is $4,000–$5,000?
More than 50% of adults in USA have 2 or more chronic diseases (true or false)
What is True? (51.4%)
The U.S. spends about this percent of healthcare costs on prescription drugs.
What is 9%?
Healthcare delivery model in which providers such as hospitals, doctors, and other clinicians are paid solely based on patient health outcomes.
What is value based care? (VBC)
Country with more advanced value-based models but higher costs and unequal access.
What is The United States of America?
In 2023, The USA spent about this much money on healthcare as a whole.
What is $5 trillion?
On average, a baby born in Japan can expect to live about this many years — one of the highest in the world.
What is 84–85 years?
In Japan, drug prices are reviewed and reduced every how many years?
What is every 2 years?
In this model Providers (doctors, hospitals, clinics) are paid for each individual service they perform.
What is Fee For Service model? (FFS)
Japan’s mandatory annual health screenings emphasize this type of proactive care.
What is preventive care?
This is the percentage of total spending that USA puts towards preventative care each year.
What is 3-4%?
In the U.S., this common chronic disease affects nearly 40% of adults, compared to less than 5% in Japan.
What is obesity?
In the U.S., this agency regulates drug safety and efficacy, but not cost.
What is the FDA?
The U.S. government programs Medicare and Medicaid mainly serve these two groups.
Who are the elderly and low-income individuals?
These are the only 2 countries that allow the advertisement of prescription drugs.
What is USA and New Zealand
The United States spends more per person on healthcare than any other country — about this much per year. (+-$500)
In 2022, USA spent about $12,000 on healthcare per capita which is ______ the rate of the average wealthy country.
What is double?
Japan promotes affordability by heavily encouraging this type of drug.
What are generics?
Fixed lump sum per hospitalization, hospital absorbs risk for costs. (Introduced in the early 1980s).
What is Diagnosis Related Group? (DRG)
This type of cost is a big driver of U.S. healthcare spending compared to Japan — making up nearly double the share.
What are administrative costs?
Despite spending far less, Japan’s healthcare outcomes (like life expectancy) are often better than the U.S., showing that higher spending does not always equal this.
What is: better quality of care?
This is the difference in years between USA and Japan for life expectancy (+-0.5 years).
What is 5.6 years?
The U.S. is one of only two countries that allow this type of pharmaceutical advertising.
What is direct-to-consumer advertising?
Japan’s version of a case-mix / bundled payment system for inpatient hospital care. (Introduced in 2003).
What is Diagnosis Procedure Combination? (DPC)
Private insurance companies have the ability to drive up prices because they don't have to adhere to this.
What is government set prices/policies on healthcare spending?