Former Prime Minister and current Fin Min Taro Aso (who is 72-years-old) had some downright nasty comments directed at the elderly today:
“I would wake up feeling increasingly bad knowing that [treatment] was all being for by the government,” he said, noting the “several tens of millions of yen” care for the dying costs a month per patient.
“The problem won’t be solved unless you let them hurry up and die.”
Japan is a demographic disaster.