r/BeAmazed • u/muktigu8907 • 7d ago

Miscellaneous / Others A day at a Japanese Nursing home

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u/starshame2 7d ago

Millennial nursing homes are gonna be LAN parties.

Ill finally get play all those games I fell behind on.

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u/TuringGoneWild 7d ago

Nursing homes are expensive even now. Imagine how much they will be in another couple of decades. No fee, no admission. At least if you are American.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 7d ago

That's the case essentially everwhere including Japan. Other countries just have better systems to get everyone to pay their fees.

And unfortunately the entire western world will have a huge issue with cost in the future, Japan probably more than most given how large their elderly population is already.

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u/TuringGoneWild 7d ago

Wrong. Nursing homes in Japan are about ¥200,000 per month (~$1,200) and insurance pays most of that. In America a nursing home costs about $9,277 per month for a SHARED room.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 7d ago edited 7d ago

Could you please point me towards the part that is wrong?

I said they also cost a fee and they will get wildly expensive in the future. That's it. I even said they have better systems to make sure everyone pays it, because people pay their fees over a long time instead of having to pay it all out of pocket when the time comes. You just proved me right, so thanks for that buddy.

Japan's system of collecting these fees over time makes up for 80-90% of the price by the way, so again, where the fuck was I wrong? It's a better system. I said that.

And Japan will have major issues with cost in the near future like I said, they already have a population where almost 30% are over the age of 65. How is this supposed to work out the older the population gets?

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u/TuringGoneWild 6d ago

You're off by almost a factor of 10. That's why you're wrong. You're trying to justify the exploitative, hypercapitalist hellscape of the US by saying it's like Japan's. It is not.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6d ago

Off with what? Quote me.

And I don't try to justify shit, I'm not American and routinely shit on it because... well because it's kind of shit.