The Japanese government has a new health plan for people at risk of acquiring metabolic syndrome, with mandatory visits to a nurse councilor and penalties for insurers which fail to meet certain targets:
In addition, the health ministry requires each health insurance provider to set specific targets concerning the ratio of people covered by its insurance program who take medical checkups, the ratio of those who receive counseling and the reduction in the numbers of people who already have or are likely to develop metabolic syndrome.
This later seems pretty bizaare, although I have to give the government credit for taking early initiate on the problem, I doubt if there were many public health experts and doctors consulted.
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