Generic drug crisis in Japan and changes leading to the collapse of universal health insurance established in 1961: the case of Kobayashi Kako Co. Ltd

Affiliations

• ¹ Imamura Hospital Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan.
• ² Medical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
• ³ Department of Breast and Thryoid Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.
• ⁴ School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
• ⁵ School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
• ⁶ Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia. [email protected].
• ⁷ Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. [email protected].
• ⁸ Department of Global Health Economics and Policy, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia. [email protected].