Although Korean people´s expectation of medical services grows higher than ever before both the quality and choice of medical services, they are not guaranteed despite the excessive burden of medical service consumers. On the other hand, the suppliers of medical services have become very unhappy along with great burden due to several factors such as: the fees for medical treatment which are below the medical service production cost; infringement of autonomy in medical treatment under the excessive regulations by the Government; and the responsibilities which health care suppliers have to bear for medical accidents. However, Korean Government has taken health care reform including seperation of prescription and drug dispensing, unification of medical insurance organizations, the Korean Laws on the hospital are still very limited in securing hospitals autonomy and not much rationale in its context.
This study is to examine the current situation of the laws related to hospitals and suggest its direction to reform for better system.
In order to carry out this study, we reviewed the laws concerning hospital management including medical act law, medical insurance law, and the laws of the tax, traffic accident insurance, construction, etc.
In conclusion ,we recommended that several laws concerning hospital should be reformed in direction of autonomy, fulfill rationale in its context.
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