The Rich Survive, the Poor Die — China’s Medical Collapse and the Abuse of Japan’s Health Insurance

This article exposes the grim reality of China’s healthcare collapse amid a surge in cancer cases.
While official data show millions of new patients and thousands of daily deaths, China’s medical infrastructure remains severely inadequate.
Wealthy elites escape this crisis by seeking treatment in Japan and Western countries, while ordinary citizens are left without care.
The essay further reveals how visa systems, paper companies, and insurance schemes may enable the misuse of Japan’s health insurance, turning a humanitarian system into a target for systematic exploitation.

2017-07-02
The rich survive if they receive treatment in Japan or the West.
The poor simply die.
The following continues from the previous chapter.
All emphasis within the text, except for the heading, is mine.
“Can it be increased like pulling up potatoes by the roots?”
According to a 2015 report by the World Health Organization, China ranks first in the world in the increase of cancer patients, making it a cancer superpower acknowledged by both itself and others.
As aging accelerates under the long-standing one-child policy, the number of cancer patients—such as those with stomach cancer and lung cancer—has been rising sharply year after year.
According to data from China’s National Cancer Center, which compiles information from cancer centers in 72 Chinese cities, in the single year of 2015 approximately 4.3 million people were newly diagnosed with cancer, about 1.8 million died from cancer, and the daily death toll reached roughly 7,500.
It goes without saying that behind the explosive increase in cancer patients lie toxic foods synonymous with carcinogens, such as chicken and pork saturated with growth hormones, vegetables drenched in pesticides, polluted water, and filthy air.
Metabolic syndrome has also surged, even among children.
Perhaps due to extravagant banquets and poor-quality alcohol, many local Communist Party officials suffer from impaired liver function.
And yet, China’s medical conditions can only be described as disgraceful.
Hospitals, beds, and doctors are chronically insufficient, and everything else—medical skills, equipment, hygiene, services—is far too shoddy, leaving problems piled high.
“Even if you want to call an ambulance, it is expensive and usually requires cash payment in advance.
Above all, there are too few ambulances to rely on at all,” says a resident living on the outskirts of Beijing.
Without money and connections.
To begin with, without money and connections, even if one suffers from a serious illness, not only surgery but even hospitalization is difficult, and one has no choice but to die without receiving proper treatment.
In online spaces as well, self-deprecating phrases fly around, such as “The rich survive if they get treatment in Japan or the West. The poor just die,” “No matter how much money you have in China, the doctors are fake,” and “Medicines circulating within China are not counterfeit, they are poisons.”
This reveals that Chinese Communist Party officials care about no lives other than their own and those of their families.
Stories occasionally leak out such as “An official is hospitalized at a famous private hospital in Japan.”
The costs involved are enormous.
If that is the case, perhaps they establish paper companies in Japan and enroll in insurance.
Looking into the previously mentioned business management visa, its name was changed from “Investor–Manager Visa” on April 1, 2015, and the requirements were relaxed.
Details are omitted, but broadly speaking, even without having established a Japanese corporation, if one presents articles of incorporation to the Immigration Bureau indicating plans to establish a company, it is understood as “in progress toward company establishment.”
With capital of at least five million yen (show money?), new applications are possible, and the residence periods available are five years, three years, one year, four months, and three months.
In all cases, one is eligible to become an insured person.
There is also the Japan Health Insurance Association, which covers employees of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Under this system, if the insured person supports a spouse, children, or parents residing abroad, all of them can be enrolled.
It is said that “even if remittance certificates or documents proving family relationships are forged and submitted, the screening passes.”
If that is true, then it is also possible to increase the number of insurance cards “like pulling up potatoes by the roots” through employees working at Japanese small and medium-sized companies.
First, there is the method of “adoption.”
In fact, cases in which Japanese men married to Chinese women unknowingly become the fathers of several children are not rare.
Adoption is one of the alchemical techniques used to obtain child allowances.
Even so, when the time comes for schooling, the “adopted” children are not necessarily present in Japan.
Even if those around feel suspicious, excuses such as “They are being raised by the parents of the Chinese wife and commute to school from there” or “They are enrolled in a boarding school in Shanghai” are accepted by Japanese government offices.
Could it be that a business of secretly lending insurance card names to brokers is also spreading?