{"id":544430,"date":"2026-03-16T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544430\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:02:26","slug":"japan-moves-to-cover-full-cost-of-child-delivery-with-public-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544430\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan moves to cover full cost of child delivery with public health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A system to cover the total costs of child delivery through public health insurance was approved in a Cabinet meeting on Friday, as the nation aims to tackle a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/japan\/society\/japan-birth-record-low\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly declining birth rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under Japan\u2019s current system, the total cost of deliveries is not covered by public health insurance. In cases of special deliveries, such as cesarean section, it can be considered a medical emergency and would be covered partially by insurance, with individuals bearing 30% of the medical costs.<\/p>\n<p>For standard deliveries, women covered by public health insurance who give birth are granted a one-time allowance of \u00a5500,000 ($3,130) per child. However, in recent years the cost for child delivery has been on the rise, and in many cases this lump-sum payment is not enough to cover all the fees required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A system to cover the total costs of child delivery through public health insurance was approved in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,502,137,500,4631,196176,62062,15796,2169],"class_list":["post-544430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-children","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-insurance","tag-mhlw","tag-national-health-care","tag-parenthood","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}