Once a month I have been attending a lecture at Temple University about the health care system in Japan. While health care has never been part of my field of study, Japan's society and culture have been. For that reason, it is interesting.
For exam, Japanese Politics are generally more "realism adverse" than other countries. In other words, it takes government officials much longer to acknowledge social changes and problems, and even longer still to act upon them. One example is that Japan, a country of people very concerned about health and safety, ranked bellow China in Tobacco control (non-smoking areas, age verification vending machines. checking age at stores, etc.)
However, today Sanami didn't go with me because, "Since I can't change the system, why would I want to learn about it's problems? That's just frustrating!"
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As Americans are becoming more and more aware, finally, health care is an issue which involve everyone and everything... I just listened to a commentary tonite and the topic of small farms came up... and a part of their struggle is health care, so these small to moderate farmers tend to work a full time job to obtain it. Perhaps, as the speaker suggested, we should be restructuring our farm subsidies to include affordable health insurance. It's good not to be too focused... most issues intertwine at some level.
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