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The Stealth Tax: challenging the structural collapse of Japan's National Health Insurance

The premium ceiling rose 2.7 times, to 1,130,000 yen, through Cabinet Orders that never went before the Diet. 15 slides on how it happened, what it costs, and the lawsuit that answers it.

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Slide 1 of 15. Title slide. The Stealth Tax: exposing the structural collapse of Japan's National Health Insurance.
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Slide 2 of 15. Executive summary: the democratic bypass, the broken safety net, and the legal counter-offensive.
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Slide 3 of 15. The escalation of the stealth tax mechanism: the ceiling climbs from 420,000 yen to 1,130,000 yen.
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Slide 4 of 15. Unpacking the 1.13 million yen premium ceiling, and the collapse of the quid-pro-quo.
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Slide 5 of 15. The hollowing out of mutual aid: a village of 100, in 1965 and in 2023.
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Slide 6 of 15. The two-layered trap on the working generation.
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Slide 7 of 15. The intergenerational reversal of gain and loss.
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Slide 8 of 15. The global outlier: the absence of an adjustment valve.
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Slide 9 of 15. The right to life denied: systemic violations of Article 25.
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Slide 10 of 15. The weaponization of account seizures.
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Slide 11 of 15. The dismantling of the local safety net: the 2018 prefecturalization.
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Slide 12 of 15. The constitutional matrix: the foundation of the lawsuit.
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Slide 13 of 15. The legal strategy: a three-pronged counter-offensive.
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Slide 14 of 15. The plaintiffs: building a nationwide coalition.
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Slide 15 of 15. The roadmap to structural correction.
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