一、国民医疗费用的增长近二十年日本医疗事业,在全民保险制度下,从内容、规模到社会效果,都在高速发展。随着日本医疗事业的发展,国民医疗费用以较高的增长率逐年不断增长,而且增长速度超过了国民经济的增长速度。其主要原因是:医疗技术的高度发展和人口结构的老龄化。可以预见,这两个因素从现在起到二十一世纪还会不断发展。从而 I. Growth of National Medical Expenditure In the past two decades, Japan’s medical industry has grown rapidly from content, scale, and social effects under the universal insurance system. With the development of the medical industry in Japan, the national medical expenses have been growing year after year at a relatively high growth rate, and the growth rate has exceeded the growth rate of the national economy. The main reasons are: the highly developed medical technology and the aging of the population structure. It can be predicted that these two factors will continue to develop from now to the 21st century. thereby