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Health Care Reform in South Korea: Success or Failure?

Author(s) -

Jong-chan Lee

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.93.1.48

Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , economic growth , national health insurance , intervention (counseling) , health insurance , health care , industrialisation , universal coverage , business , environmental health , political science , medicine , economics , nursing , population , philosophy , linguistics , law

South Korea is one of the world's most rapidly industrializing countries. Along with industrialization has come universal health insurance. Within the span of 12 years, South Korea went from private voluntary health insurance to government-mandated universal coverage. Since 1997, with the intervention of the International Monetary Fund, Korean national health insurance (NHI) has experienced deficits and disruption. However, there are lessons to be drawn for the United States from the Korean NHI experience.

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