The other point about Japan’s national healthcare that appears to be not well known among those who point to Japan as an example (e.g., "better" health outcomes such as life expectancy) is that the individual co-pays have been rising drastically and are now 30% for the under 69 population and individuals 70 and over with incomes of greater than about $38k.
Some expect this co-pay to ramping to 50% over the next decade. |
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The Japanese have a life expectancy of about 82 years (one of the worlds highest):
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html#People
Asian-Americans taken as a group, actually have a higher life expectancy than native Japanese at almost 85 years:
http://www.livescience.com/health/060912_ap_life_expectancy.html |
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The difference with the Japanese is that they’ve put the onus on individual citizens to get their weight down, leaving it up to them to find a method. The approach the Democrats would take would be to blame whoever makes Twinkies.
I’m honestly not sure which is worse. Both are offensive in their way - but I guess at least the Japanese get results from their monitoring system. With the Democrats running one here, it would almost certainly paint the overweight as "victims" of advertising. There would be a completely irrational and inconsistent list of items that had to go, and these things would, of course, surreptitiously be supplemented by other things, as is always the case when programs target proxies rather than the source. The net effect would be that government was busier than ever intruding in the economy, and waistlines would stay about the same on average. |
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This may also explain why the suicide rate in Japan keeps going up. Last year it was around 35,000 cases. |
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It is a "rational" response of the government, as the high cost care is usually obesity related. If you know that certain metabolic realities are going to raise your costs, then you need to change those realities.
High obesity is implicated in cancers, diabetes, strokes, coronary diseases etc. Since government is ’paying’ for those costs, this rule is a way of reducing them.
I am not surprised this has not come up before. And I do think it is a given that if we do get hillarycare, this kind of government reaction would follow very quickly, as so much of america’s health care expense is obesity related.
So you better put down that cheesecake right now if you know what is good for you. |
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