Japan Government to force immigrants to use social health care

[choose2choose]

As of April 2010, immigration will introduce a guideline which will require enrollment in social health insurance as a prerequisite for visa renewal.
Virtually all international citizens living in Japan have special health care concerns. Those presently on an expatriate health insurance plan will be forced to join a public insurance program, and may lose these important expatriate benefits.
-It won’t cover payment of medical fees at International Clinics in Japan
-There are certain procedures and medicines that are not covered by public health insurance
-No medical/political evacuation coverage
-No comprehensive international coverage
-Those not in the present system have to pay up to 2 or 3 years in back premiums

The Constitution of Japan guarantees the right of all people in Japan to petition the government for the enactment, repeal or amendment of laws, ordinances or regulations.
With this article from the Constitution in mind, the Free Choice Foundation will petition the government in a peaceful and respectful manner for the amendment of regulations pertaining to the health care needs of the foreign community.

Please visit the Free Choice Foundation to sign our petition. You can find us on Twitter under choose2choose.

[Mike Cash]

This thread has a very deja-vu feel to it.

How about actually participating in discussions with us rather than just doing the online equivalent of sticking a pamphlet beneath the windshield wipers of all the cars in the JREF parking lot?

Your contentions have already addressed here, and refuted. (And I believe the Japanese Constitution refers to 国民, which you and the people you purport to be championing are not).