What is the Medical System for Elderly Seniors?

With medical insurance for those 75 years or older, when you reach your 75th birthday, you will be transferred from the medical insurance you have enrolled until then to the medical system for elder senior citizens.
The operation will be carried out in cooperation with the municipalities of the Senior Citizens' Medical and Wide Area Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the “wide area association”) established in each prefecture. The Wide Area Union mainly operates the system, and municipalities mainly perform window operations.
This system is supported by society as a whole. Of the medical expenses, the remaining expenses, excluding co-payments paid at medical institutions, etc., are about 50% of taxes (public expenses: borne by the national, prefectural and municipal governments) and about 40% of support money from active generations.