Healthcare Budget Raised

On the back of relatively strong economic growth in 2007, Japan has increased the amount it will spend on healthcare during 2008. BMI tends to welcomes such rises, but in this instance it may not be the best idea. The number of working poor in the country is increasing in size and there are fears that Japan's population is becoming stratified according to income. Despite a recent rise in the minimum wage, welfare benefits have been cut. Perhaps some of the extra funds for healthcare could have been distributed among those on the margins of

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