{"id":15214,"date":"2019-05-12T08:59:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T18:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2019-05-12T19:34:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:34:20","slug":"yomiuri-goj-now-demanding-gaijin-cards-from-nj-for-medical-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15214","title":{"rendered":"Yomiuri: GOJ now requiring hospitals (unlawfully) demand Gaijin Cards from NJ as a precondition for medical treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Related to recent discussions about public refusals of service for either not complying with (unlawful) demands for NJ ID<\/a>, or denial of service anyway when people in charge arbitrarily decide a visa’s length is not long enough<\/a>, mentioned below is a move by the GOJ to require hospitals demand Gaijin Cards etc. (as opposed to just requiring medical insurance cards (hokenshou<\/em>), like they would from any Japanese patient) as a precondition for providing treatment to sick NJ.<\/p>\n

Granted, the Yomiuri article below notes that for Japanese patients, the government is “considering” requiring a Japanese Driver License etc. as well, because the hokenshou<\/em> is not a photo ID. \u00a0But once again, NJ are clearly less “trustworthy” than the average Japanese patient, so NJ will have more (again, unlawful<\/a>) rigmarole first.<\/p>\n

But there’s a deeper pattern in this policy creep. \u00a0Recall the “Gaijin as Guinea Pig<\/a>” syndrome we’ve discussed on Debito.org<\/a> for well over a decade now: \u00a0Public policies to further infringe upon civil liberties are first tested out on the Gaijin — because foreign residents even Constitutionally<\/a> have much fewer civil liberties<\/a> — and then those policies are foisted on the general public once the precedent is set. \u00a0 So once again, the GOJ is taking advantage of the weakened position of NJ to assume more government control over society.<\/p>\n

NB: \u00a0There’s also a meaner attitude at work: \u00a0Note in the last paragraph of the article below the echoes of 1980<\/a>‘s “foreigners have AIDS” paranoia<\/a> creeping into LDP policy justifications once again. \u00a0I say “mean” because the point would have been made by just stopping at “the person fraudulently used somebody else’s insurance”. \u00a0And I’m sure presenting a Gaijin Card would have fixed the AIDS issue! \u00a0(Not to mention that the GOJ apparently WANTS people to get AIDS screening, especially if they’re visibly foreign<\/a>!) \u00a0Such ill-considered policymaking signals!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, don’t expect equal treatment as a patient if you get sick while foreign. \u00a0It’s official policy. \u00a0Debito Arudou Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Related to recent discussions about public refusals of service for either not complying with (unlawful) demands for NJ ID, or denial of service anyway when people in charge arbitrarily decide a visa’s length is not long enough, mentioned below is a move by the GOJ to require hospitals demand Gaijin Cards etc. (as opposed to just requiring medical insurance cards (hokenshou), like they would from any Japanese patient) as a precondition for providing treatment to sick NJ. \u00a0Granted, the Yomiuri article below notes that for Japanese patients, the government is “considering” requiring a Japanese Driver License etc. as well, because the hokenshou is not a photo ID. \u00a0But once again, NJ are clearly less “trustworthy” than the average Japanese patient, so NJ will have more (again, unlawful) rigmarole first. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But there’s a deeper pattern in this policy creep. \u00a0Recall the “Gaijin as Guinea Pig” syndrome we’ve discussed on Debito.org for well over a decade now: \u00a0Public policies to further infringe upon civil liberties are first tested out on the Gaijin — because foreign residents even Constitutionally have much fewer civil liberties — and then those policies are foisted on the general public once the precedent is set. \u00a0 So once again, the GOJ is taking advantage of the weakened position of NJ to assume more government control over society. \u00a0<\/p>\n

NB: \u00a0There’s also a meaner attitude at work: \u00a0Note in the last paragraph of the article below the echoes of 1980’s “foreigners have AIDS” paranoia creeping into LDP policy justifications once again. \u00a0I say “mean” because the point would have been made by just stopping at “the person fraudulently used somebody else’s insurance”. \u00a0And I’m sure presenting a Gaijin Card would have fixed the AIDS issue! \u00a0(Not to mention that the GOJ apparently WANTS people to get AIDS screening, especially if they’re visibly foreign!) \u00a0Such ill-considered policymaking signals! <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, don’t expect equal treatment as a patient if you get sick while foreign. \u00a0It’s official policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,36,33,52,12,73,4,14,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-bad-social-science","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-hate-speech","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15659,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions\/15659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}