Regarding the Dec. 9 article "Panel to seek ¥6.8 trillion to boost low birthrate": Instead of allocating this amount to a "task force" to address the problem, you can buy a temporary bed for ¥7,000. That would solve birthrate problems a lot better than a panel wasting money to come up with more pathetic platitudes.
In August, a baby's life might have been saved for a ¥7,000 temporary bed. Instead, an ambulance sped around from one hospital to the next only to find that 10 successive hospitals in Nara didn't have one. The baby died. How much of this ¥7 trillion will ever find its way into the right hands to save babies?
david wood
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