Several years ago, the government discussed state-sponsored care for people with disabilities. The idea was to assist mentally and physically disabled people in leaving publicly-funded facilities and entering society; or, at least, that was how it was presented.
Around the time, TV Asahi's now defunct evening news show "News Station" ran a report on a family whose disabled daughter left the public facility where she was being cared for and returned home. The report showed the difficulties that the family went through to take care of her.
Some nongovernmental groups that support people with disabilities complained, saying that TV Asahi's report would only force them back into facilities, which they argued were like prisons. However, many people inferred something else from the report, which was that lawmakers didn't care about people with disabilities, and were simply looking for ways to cut the welfare budget.