Design of sustainable health and long-term care insurances finance and efficient services provision system

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330098
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Public finance/Monetary economics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: IWAMOTO Yasushi 東京大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 教授 (40193776)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SUZUKI Wataru 学習院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (80324854) ; FUKUI Tadashi 京都産業大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10351264) ; MOROZUMI Ryoko 富山大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (50432117) ; YUDA Michio 中京大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (30454359)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 財政学 / 経済政策 / 社会保障

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although the projection until the Fiscal Year 2025 has been used in discussions on social security finance, a longer time horizon is needed to deal with real issues caused by population aging, because the ratio of elderly to total population will not peek out in a first half of this century. This research discusses how to finance the future health care and long-term care costs, which will rise sharply. It also examines alternative financing schemes that aim to smooth insurance premiums during a century to lighten the future burdens. We identify a practically reasonable implementation of financing scheme to smooth burdens among generations.

Free Research Field

公共経済学