About health insurance
When, unfortunately, the family of everybody and everyone did a disease and an injuly, big expenditure is accompanied. In the case of delivery and the death, it is the same.
People insured give premiums according to an income, and the entrepreneur bears the health insurance for such an unexpected situation and provides with necessary medical care and cash and is a system born from a purpose of mutual aid reducing a burden each other.
About health insurance societies
A Health Insurance Society is a public corporation that handles the tasks related to providing health insurance.
Establishments that employ 700 or more employees on a continual basis or that include 3,000 or more employees in the same types of business or industry are eligible to establish health insurance societies with the permission of the Minister for Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan.
Merit of health insurance society
- Implement health measures in line with the actual conditions such as the age composition of the participants, sex ratio,disease trends, etc., and proactively perform health management etc. in cooperation with the business owner
- "Additional benefits" can be made in addition to the benefits stipulated by the employer and the Health insurance Act.
- Do business which helps health promotion by making use contract with recreation facilities, recreation facilities, sports facilities etc.
Roles of a Health Insurance Society
The health insurance union performs the work in the range that the associated law determines other than the health insurance method, but does two called "insurance payment business" and" the health business" with main duties.
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Insurance benefits:
chiefly medical care benefitsCover medical care costs and pays various benefits for insured persons and their dependents in the event of sickness or injury, time off from work made necessary by sickness or injury,or childbirth and death. -
Health activities:
Improving member healthThese activities include efforts to support improvements in the health of insured persons and dependents.
A Health Insurance Society provides various such services, including providing health information, opportunitles for various preventative health examinations and use of athletic facilities and lodges.