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KMID : 1234820070080020009
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Korean Society of Law and Medicine
2007 Volume.8 No. 2 p.9 ~ p.35
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Overview and Insight After 30 years of implementing the National Health Insurance Regulations in Korea
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Shin Un-Heng
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Abstract
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The Health care program in Korea has now been systemized after 30 years of declaring the inauguration of the national health insurance system by the current government. The national health care covering all Korean citizens was achieved after 12 years of implementing the national health insurance and the health care program since 1977. Hundreds of multiple operational agencies managing the insured individually had undergone the amalgamation process from 1998 to 2000, and had been restructured as one agency, the National Health Insurance Corporation. In 2003, the community/area based financial management was also merged together with the employment based financial management. The National health care system of Korea offer various merits, compared with that of other countries, such as health care provision covering all Koreans, low insurance premium, accessibility of medical services/facilities etc. However, there are still some weak features which need to be addressed for improvement; below expectation insurance cover system, mistrust on the medical services, low medical charges resulted from excessive restrictions, and unstable financial status of the national health insurance etc. Therefore, the National health care system should continue to evolve to re-establish itself as more effective national health care system by further strengthening its merits, and by improving its weaknesses; with adopting the positive system to optimize the costs of prescribed medicines/drugs, applying simpler insurance coverage system to calculate the optimum medical charges, promoting private medical insurances, and increasing insurance premium etc.
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KEYWORD
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National Health Care System, National Health Insurance, Medical Care, the National Health Insurance Corporation, National Health Care covering all Koreans, Insurance Premium, Medical services, Financial status of Health Insurance, Positive system, Private health insurance
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