About health insurance
Health insurance is a public medical care insurance system designed to provide assistance in the event of sickness or injury, time off from work made necessary by sickness or injury, and childbirth and death.
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"Health insurance" provides readiness for unforeseen circumstances
Events such sickness or injury, time off from work made necessary by sickness or injury, or childbirth and death can result in unforeseen expenses and threaten one's livelihood due to loss of income. To prepare for such situations, a public medical care insurance system collects insurance premiums paid regularly by its members and draws on these financial resources to fund insurance benefits when people need them. Health insurance is one such public medical care insurance system.
"The health insurance societies" that provide health insurance
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.
The Takeda Health Insurance Society was established on 1 October, 1942.
Roles of a Health Insurance Society
Covers 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.
These 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, opportunities for various preventative health examinations and use of athletic facilities.
Autonomous and democratic operations
A Health Insurance Society is run autonomously and democratically within the boundaries specified by the Health Insurance Act, by a board with membership consisting of one-half employer representatives and one-half employee representatives.
The Health Insurance Society organization