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TOKYO, Aug 1 Asia Pulse - Japanese people spent 30.35 trillion yen in total medical expenses for all of fiscal 2000, a year-on-year decline of 1.9 per cent, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.
This marks the first time since the Health Ministry began compiling figures in fiscal 1954 that medical expenses generated by the people declined on the year.
However, the decline was due in large part to a change in the accounting system for expenses following the start of the public nursing care insurance system.
Visiting nurse services and other areas were once included in the elderly medical care category, but such expenses have been shifted to the nursing care ...