{"id":8289,"date":"2009-08-26T08:28:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2009-08-26T21:18:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:18:45","slug":"nytimes-a-look-at-the-japanese-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/nytimes-a-look-at-the-japanese-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: A look at the Japanese healthcare system"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a short article in the New York Times<\/em><\/strong> titled “Healthcare Abroad: Japan<\/strong><\/a>” which is part of a series that looks at healthcare systems in other countries.\u00a0 It briefly gets at what works well, what the weak points are and why it’s that way.<\/p>\n

How do JETs and JET alums feel about Japanese healthcare and the points in this article?\u00a0 Share your thoughts by posting a comment.<\/p>\n

See this recent post on JetWit<\/a> (“JET alumni and healthcare<\/strong><\/a>“) for additional discussion of JET alumni and their experiences and concerns with healthcare.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/span><\/em> Turns out PBS’ Frontline<\/strong> did a documentary called “Sick Around the World<\/a>“<\/strong> which examined the healthcare systems in five countries, including Japan, which you can watch on their website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a short article in the New York Times titled “Healthcare Abroad: Japan” which is part of a series that looks at healthcare systems in other countries.\u00a0 It briefly gets at what works well, what the weak points are and why it’s that way. How do JETs and JET alums feel about Japanese healthcare and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[73,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-career","category-japan-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t