{"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":"<p>There&#8217;s a short article in the <strong><em>New York Times<\/em><\/strong> titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/25\/health-care-abroad-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Healthcare Abroad: Japan<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; 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&#8217;s that way.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/24\/jet-alumni-and-health-insurance\/\">this recent post on JetWit<\/a> (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/24\/jet-alumni-and-health-insurance\/\"><strong>JET alumni and healthcare<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;) for additional discussion of JET alumni and their experiences and concerns with healthcare.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update:<\/span><\/em> Turns out <strong>PBS&#8217; Frontline<\/strong> did a documentary called <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/sickaroundtheworld\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sick Around the World<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> which examined the healthcare systems in five countries, including Japan, which you can watch on their website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/sickaroundtheworld\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a short article in the New York Times titled &#8220;Healthcare Abroad: Japan&#8221; 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&#8217;s that way. How do JETs and JET alums feel about Japanese healthcare and [&hellip;]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-29H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}