Japan has dramatically expanded social benefits for young families in the past 25 years. I would say these programmes mostly benefit the middle class and below

Japan has dramatically expanded social benefits for young families in the past 25 years. I would say these programmes mostly benefit the middle class and below. The US didn't have national healthcare before President Obama. Millions of middle and low income people are now insured under that programme. President George W. Bush helped to add coverage for prescription drugs to Medicare (national health insurance for retired people). This is just a short list. I am sure others can provide a many examples from Korea, Taiwan, Scandinavia or AU/NZ.