Why all the anger and hatefulness? Your guess about my personal life is so far off base.
Then by all means please enlighten me. How am I wrong? Please tell me more about yourself.
Plus I try to never be hateful. I'm always aware that there are people out there with different viewpoints and different situations, and I'm always prepared to disagree respectfully, but when someone uses words like "Ponzi scheme" and "true criminals" to (utterly wrongly, I should add) describe something that the people in my country take an awful lot of pride in and something which makes my country one of the best places in the world to live, I take that pretty personally.
Also, I have a family member who is a cancer survivor and benefited from our system, thank you very much. She never would have been able to afford chemotherapy on her own. Ask yourself honestly if this makes her a "true criminal".....
You should read up on the history of social security retirement and universal health care (100+ years). You will see all of these programs were voluntary in their beginnings.
They were "voluntary" for people who could afford it, and were deemed "worthy" of medical treatment. If you didn't and couldn't? You were on your own. Read up on /that/.
Opposition to universal healthcare in the US came not from the people or the economists, but from the health and life insurance companies who wanted to pick and choose who to cover ie. already healthy people without preexisting conditions who they could make maximum profit from, then deny the more expensive treatments and precautionary diagnoses.
They are all interconnected in many ways.
True, but again you've failed to grasp the nuances and subtleties of each separate system. It's like calling trains and buses the same thing "because they run on wheels and people get on it."
All are run by governments (political entities, thus my benign political comments )
You already called them criminals in a previous post. Too late now.
Too detailed for me to address now.
Please try, I'll wait....
If it is not to boost funding for government social services for an ageing population, WHY does Japan want to increase their citizen's birthrate? Population growth is certainly not needed in over-populated Japan. Please tell me. Why does Japan want to increase it's birth-rate?
Japan wants to increase its birth-rate to grow its economy, and get out of the 20+ year "Lost Decade". Aging population means fewer people actively working and contributing to GDP. Funding pensions and social services is a healthy side effect of a healthy economy, not the primary driver. Simple as that.
And please cite your reasoning for your assertion that Japan is "over-populated".
Lastly, no I'm not reading anything from Daily Fail. Click-bait gossip tabloid. The links down the right hand side of the page make me
PS: universal healthcare /raises/ your country's birth-rate, as mothers are more confident their own health as well as the health of her children are taken care of.
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MM: Fukumura, Ikuta, Iikubo, Ishida, Kudo, Masaki, Oda, Nonaka, Makino, Haga
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