Why Japan health system is better than US and cheaper than US?

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I checked and saw that Japan pays 7 percent of their GDP´s while it´s 16 for US. And life expectacy is much longer. What is the reason behind this. Insurance companies or life style?
 
Their system is certainly inferior to the US system, whcih creates 99 percent of all new medicines and treatments. The Japanese live longer because of cultural reasons having nothing to do with healthcare, .like a diet that just happens to be healthier than ours.
 
Japanese people don't stuff their faces with growth hormone, arsenic filled meat or fried foods. Americans eat crap everyday and wonder why they have heart attacks at 30.
 
I didn't know that, you see, another reason to start packing and moving to Japan. I'm going to start learning Japanese next week.
 
Japan has a "Rationed" care system. Which means you get care when they are ready and you get the care that the government says is ok. The US's system is demand based. This means if you are 85 and you break a hip you can get a hip replacement, even if you will only probably live for 5 more years. In a rationed care system it would take five years to get the surgery if you can get it approved by the government.

It all comes down to the idea that you can reduce price by reducing the amount of care received.
 
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