- Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (TOKYO:2503) and Kao Corporation (TOKYO:4452) will participate in the Wakayama Health Promotion Study, a cohort study 2 led .
Kirin Holdings Company Limited TOKYO2503 and Kao Corporation TOKYO4452 will participate in the Wakayama Health Promotion Study a cohort study2 led by Wakayama Medical University and organized by the Health Promotion Research Center HPRC a nonprofit organization.
Over the course of the past several decades, federal and state lawmakers have proposed a variety of initiatives to reform America’s health care system and reduce costs. One idea has been to instill competition in the health care markets to enable the industry to operate more like a traditional market.
America’s hospital markets are consolidated, with a relatively small number of hospital systems dominating a large share of the market in any given geographical area. The right remedy for such a concentration of economic power is free-market competition, but competition in this sector of the economy is weak. The absence of strong competition increases consumer costs, decreases consumer choice, weakens provider incentives for innovation, and thus threatens the cost-effective delivery of medical care.