Japan LDP panel wants foreign residents to prepay health insurance premiums – The Mainichi

5 comments

1. “The proposed prepayment system envisions foreign residents paying a certain period’s premiums at the local government office when they complete their enrollment procedures *upon arrival in Japan.*

   The proposal also highlights a lack of understanding by foreigners regarding taxes and social insurance as a contributing factor, and suggests “actively informing foreign nationals about the system prior to their entry into Japan to promote their understanding.”

2. Wow.

3. This is just going to make the population crisis worse. Falling local population requires more immigration. Immigration requires COEs, which are expensive and time consuming for sponsors, exhorbitant upfront costs for finding and moving into an apartment (and that’s not even getting into anti-foreigner sentiment among renters), now they’re adding *more* costs upon arrival? People will stop coming, and sponsors will stop sponsoring.

4. Blame foreigners is the populism evergreen 

5. Wow. This is amazing.

   It does nothing to address the real cause that it is shady employers who don’t properly enroll their new employees into 社会保険.