{"id":987524562,"date":"2021-05-28T03:36:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T02:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-insurance-associations-of-japanese-corporations-face-deficit-in-wake-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:20:16","slug":"health-insurance-associations-of-japanese-corporations-face-deficit-in-wake-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-insurance-associations-of-japanese-corporations-face-deficit-in-wake-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Associations of Japanese Corporations face deficit in wake of COVID 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Japan\u2019s Health Insurance Associations that is covered by the employer corporations based on contributions made from salaries has taken a hit due to COVID 19 estimates the National Federation of Health Insurance Societies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>78% of the nation&#8217;s health-insurance unions composed of employees of large companies are expected to post deficits even as premiums rise to more than 10% of salaries to cover shortfalls.&nbsp;<span>The current account balance shows a deficit of \u00a5509.8 billion, twice the deficit of \u00a5230.6 billion incurred the previous year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>An ageing population is already increasing the country\u2019s health expenditure. The increasing deficits in pooling of funds for employee health insurance might result in a lack of health coverage if not checked soon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>(1\u00a5 = 0.009 USD)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>To know more read the entire news article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/japan-data\/h01006\/majority-of-health-insurance-associations-of-large-corporations-in-the-red.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nippon.com here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/tse4.mm.bing.net\/th?id=OIP.YpG_qmcNP-wn3_hTPk4y7AHaDt&amp;pid=Api&amp;P=0&amp;w=395&amp;h=198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expat.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Have anything to say about the deficits in Japan&#8217;s employee health insurance? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Health Insurance Associations that is covered by the employer corporations based on contributions made from salaries has taken a hit due to COVID 19 estimates the National Federation of Health Insurance Societies. 78% of the nation&#8217;s health-insurance unions composed of employees of large companies are expected to post deficits even as premiums rise to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}