March 7, 2011
The Your Party’s “regulatory reform plan” published on March 4 proposes even more radical deregulation policies than the LDP’s Koizumi “structural reform” policies that led to increasing the poverty rate and widening social inequality.
Describing its plan as a bold way of regulatory reform, the Your Party requests that regulations ensuring people’s lives and rights be removed from the fields of medical and nursing-care services, childcare services, agriculture, education, and employment.
Regarding the field of healthcare, the Your Party wants to introduce more medical treatments that are not covered by the national healthcare insurance programs. In the plan, the party places top priority on an introduction of a ‘mixed’ form of insured and non-insured medical services and states that it will work hard to achieve this. As for nursing-care services, the party proposes to ease regulations on businesses to facilitate their entry into the industry.
The Your Party’s proposal also includes a policy of lowering the national standards in regard to the minimum size and the minimum number of staff of a childcare center. This would lead to a drop in the quality of childcare services and a reduction in government responsibility for childcare services. Furthermore, the proposal argues that companies should have the right to freely dismiss their employees.
The proposal states that a basic principle for the regulatory reform is to adjust Japan’s rules to international standards in accordance with the move to promote Japan’s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade pact.
The Your Party expresses its determination to push for Japan’s participation in the TPP as a leverage to fully open Japan’s agricultural market to other countries and lift restrictions on large corporations.
Adjusting Japan’s regulations downward the international average means that corporate interests come before anything under the name of globalization.
Your Party leader Watanabe Yoshimi said, “Both the DPJ and the LDP can’t change anything, but we can.”
However, along with the DPJ and the LDP, the Your Party heed the demands of the United States and the business circles.
Describing its plan as a bold way of regulatory reform, the Your Party requests that regulations ensuring people’s lives and rights be removed from the fields of medical and nursing-care services, childcare services, agriculture, education, and employment.
Regarding the field of healthcare, the Your Party wants to introduce more medical treatments that are not covered by the national healthcare insurance programs. In the plan, the party places top priority on an introduction of a ‘mixed’ form of insured and non-insured medical services and states that it will work hard to achieve this. As for nursing-care services, the party proposes to ease regulations on businesses to facilitate their entry into the industry.
The Your Party’s proposal also includes a policy of lowering the national standards in regard to the minimum size and the minimum number of staff of a childcare center. This would lead to a drop in the quality of childcare services and a reduction in government responsibility for childcare services. Furthermore, the proposal argues that companies should have the right to freely dismiss their employees.
The proposal states that a basic principle for the regulatory reform is to adjust Japan’s rules to international standards in accordance with the move to promote Japan’s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade pact.
The Your Party expresses its determination to push for Japan’s participation in the TPP as a leverage to fully open Japan’s agricultural market to other countries and lift restrictions on large corporations.
Adjusting Japan’s regulations downward the international average means that corporate interests come before anything under the name of globalization.
Your Party leader Watanabe Yoshimi said, “Both the DPJ and the LDP can’t change anything, but we can.”
However, along with the DPJ and the LDP, the Your Party heed the demands of the United States and the business circles.
