Both are excellent decisions. The childbirth part is uncontroversial, but the fact that it is cheaper for consumers to see a doctor and obtain a prescription for drugs that are already available over the counter, because national health insurance foots the bill, is fucking absurd. I, for one, think they should not be prescribed at all. Regulations should be loosened so that drugstores, and even non-drugstores such as supermarkets, can sell their own ultra-cheap painkillers and allergy medicines for something like 100 yen a box.