If you treat your elderly like shit, no one is going to have faith in your system. People will start to notice that going that extra mile, working those extra hours, etc. is pointless since you are still destined to end up being a used up invalid to be discarded as soon as your body is too broken for your labor to be profitable. That doesn't strike me as particularly stable.
There's a difference between treating the elderly with care and giving them expensive treatments to prolong their life well past what it should be just to feed an expensive medical system. In fact, just letting the elderly die can sometimes be a better gift. This idea that we need to prolong life at all costs is terrible. Many previous cultures celebrated an early death if the person's life was worthwhile in their living. The ancient greeks for example often wanted to die in their prime rather than live to old life. Warriors of many cultures wanted to die in battle not live to be old. A change in mindset within the culture might be required. Living while you're old and decrepid with barely any memory in some worthless "home" is a joke existence anyway. Just let them die for their own sake.
That's far cry from your initial position. If there is a sense of dutiful honor to it, you can maybe make it work, but I don't see that happening. This whole thing is just corporations afraid to foot the bills to take care of past-their-prime human capital.
Looks like "the people" pay for 70% of the healthcare costs. That means essentially, it's young people paying to support old people. That's not a good system at all and why it's terrible. It will essentially drag young people down such that most resources in society are diverted toward caring for the elderly who themselves are not productive.
It's a sure way to destroy your society.
This is why a fully privatized system where people are responsible for 100% of the healthcare costs is the most efficient because only those old people who own significant amount of resources themselves will be able to afford care and in doing so will be redistributing resources from the rich to the poor (so to speak). Whereas, given Japan's system, you're going to see a redistribution of resources from the young to the old and the old will simply die anyway instead of adding anything productive. It's entirely a waste of resources that will make everyone poorer.
Looks like "the people" pay for 70% of the healthcare costs.
Idk Japan's tax structure, but I assume rich people pay most of the taxes so not really "the people."
Whereas, given Japan's system, you're going to see a redistribution of resources from the young to the old and the old will simply die anyway instead of adding anything productive.
The people who perform the labor to care for the elderly will get paid, though. It's not like you are giving old people wealth to hoard.
If you treat your elderly like shit, no one is going to have faith in your system. People will start to notice that going that extra mile, working those extra hours, etc. is pointless since you are still destined to end up being a used up invalid to be discarded as soon as your body is too broken for your labor to be profitable. That doesn't strike me as particularly stable.
There's a difference between treating the elderly with care and giving them expensive treatments to prolong their life well past what it should be just to feed an expensive medical system. In fact, just letting the elderly die can sometimes be a better gift. This idea that we need to prolong life at all costs is terrible. Many previous cultures celebrated an early death if the person's life was worthwhile in their living. The ancient greeks for example often wanted to die in their prime rather than live to old life. Warriors of many cultures wanted to die in battle not live to be old. A change in mindset within the culture might be required. Living while you're old and decrepid with barely any memory in some worthless "home" is a joke existence anyway. Just let them die for their own sake.
That's far cry from your initial position. If there is a sense of dutiful honor to it, you can maybe make it work, but I don't see that happening. This whole thing is just corporations afraid to foot the bills to take care of past-their-prime human capital.
Corporations? Or the government? Who is footing the bill? The people or corporations?
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan
Looks like "the people" pay for 70% of the healthcare costs. That means essentially, it's young people paying to support old people. That's not a good system at all and why it's terrible. It will essentially drag young people down such that most resources in society are diverted toward caring for the elderly who themselves are not productive.
It's a sure way to destroy your society.
This is why a fully privatized system where people are responsible for 100% of the healthcare costs is the most efficient because only those old people who own significant amount of resources themselves will be able to afford care and in doing so will be redistributing resources from the rich to the poor (so to speak). Whereas, given Japan's system, you're going to see a redistribution of resources from the young to the old and the old will simply die anyway instead of adding anything productive. It's entirely a waste of resources that will make everyone poorer.
Idk Japan's tax structure, but I assume rich people pay most of the taxes so not really "the people."
The people who perform the labor to care for the elderly will get paid, though. It's not like you are giving old people wealth to hoard.