#3 Making fee for ambulance

Today, we discussed the topic” Making a fee for ambulance”. The panels were Ryoji, Sori, Sachi, Sakiko, and me.
We were in different situations. I was a local government, Ms.Kashiwagi. Ryoji was a doctor, Mr.Shindo. Saori was a old woman who uses ambulances many times a year, her name was Yone. Sakiko was a woman who lives countryside with low income, her name was Shizuko. Sachi was a moderator.
Today, the number of ambulance is in short, but the frequency of mobilization is increasing year by year. And it costs about 50,000 yen to send an ambulance, to maintenance, and to buy tools which we use for treatment in an ambulance. This cost is paid by local government. However, there are some people who call ambulance for cantrip and because of minor injury as taxi. So, many hospitals are in trouble. Also, the cost is increasing, so local government is in trouble, too.
Then, local government demand 10,000yen to the people who used ambulance. It is the 20 percent of the cost to send an ambulance. However, because Shizuko’s income was low, she said that she could not pay. She said that she could pay 5,000 yen. But, Yone who uses ambulances about 10 times a year, so she would pay 50,000yen a year. And so, Ms.Kashiwagi made made offer the exception. She said that she would support such people who use ambulance more than 5times a year and who has chronic illness.
However, there were some problems. It seems penalty if the people who really need ambulances. And 5,000 yen is little expensive. I think that 5,000yen is not too expensive. But for homeless it is expensive and they can not pay.
And so, one audience made offer that we should charge 5,000 yen from only bad users and minor injury people.
I think it is good idea.

#2 No my own car day

On October 15th, we discussed the topic "No my own car day". The panels were Kasumi, Ayumi, Mai, Masami and Kota.
This discussion was discussed by four different position people. Ms.Hirota is office worker, and she goes to her office by car. It is difficult for her without her own car, because she lives countryside and if she uses public transportation, it will take for 2 hours. Ms.Sato works at city office. She uses public transportation to commute. Ms.Yamada is maybe travel operator...I could not understand her position well. And then, Mr. Shiraki is track driver.
In this panel discussion, they made offer that we make days which we can't drive our own cars and use public transportation twice a month. They said that they would introduce the system from city center. And the people who use cars as their work should apply to the city office.
However, I think this system has some problems. In this discussion, panels decided to introduce the system from the city center. In Kumamoto, the adoption rate of public transportation like buses and trains are not enough. So, if we use them in the same time, we will unable to take them according to schedule. As a result, we can not get our office in time. There would be too many people in bus stops and stations. To avoid this confusion, we have to piece out public transportation. Also, they would introduce to countryside in the future. So, we have to expand the traffic network. It costs too much money and it is very troublesome. It is too difficult for the people who live in countryside not to use their cars twice a month.
And so, Sachi made offer that we introduce the system not in city center but in each companies. If we do that, we will not have to cost too much money for the system.
Trough the discussion, I think that “No my own car day” is not necessary.

#1 Paying salary to house keepers

On October 8th, we discussed the topic “Should we pay salary to house keepers?" The panels were Mikako, Chinatsu, Mami, Nanase, and Aya.
This discussion was discussed by four position people. If the system is introduced, all time house keepers will be able to get 100,000yen in a month. Also, the women who work out of their house in the day and do housework in their house can get 70,000yen in a month.
However, there were some problems to introduce the system. First, the definition of house keeper is difficult. The panels said that house keeper is to do housework, and not single. Second, they discussed the definition of all time house keepers. The audience, Ayumi talked about her family. In her house, her grand mother does almost the housework. Her mother works in the day. However, after her work, she does housework with Ayumi’s grand mother. So, if the system is introduced, Ayumi’s mother will be able to her work’s salary and house keeper salary, 70,000 yen. Just maybe, this system might increase the number of white hands. 100,000 yen is not expensive but nit cheap. 70,000 yen is, too. Before house keepers get their salary, we should decide where the salary comes from. Some panels said that we should pay the house keepers’ salary as tax from our salary. However, if the workers who get less than 100,000 yen salary in a month, this tax is big charge. So, we they discussed the definition about the tax, there was no good idea.
As a result, we left some problems, and could not get together.