JP/SKR health spending are ~10% GDP, slightly above OECD average. I think there's threshold to how much politicians can appease geriatric bloc policy, there's l

JP/SKR health spending are ~10% GDP, slightly above OECD average. I think there's threshold to how much politicians can appease geriatric bloc policy, there's limits to taxation and what can be allocated to welfare net, and that threshold is probably going to leave a lot of elderly mostly on their own. Many elderly in those two countries are already working to not die, and dying alone when not working. The thing about elderly voting blocs is you can appease to them and then ignore them, they're not spry enough to meaningfully protest.