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Japan: proposal to cut funding for terminally ill patients, so they “can die quickly”

Cut state funding to terminal patients so they “can die quickly”: Aso,
Japan Times, 21 Jan 13 By REIJI YOSHIDA
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso caused a stir
Monday in talks on social security reforms when he said the medical
system should be changed so that the many terminal patients now using
“government money” for expensive treatment “can quickly pass away.”…
“I cannot sleep well when I think of (myself receiving expensive
treatments) by using government money,” the gaffe-prone Aso reportedly
said, apparently referring to massive government expenditures for the
public health insurance
system……..http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20130122a5.html

January 23, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized