Korea's healthcare system is at a serious deadlock. Healthcare service providers, authorities and patients are all dissatisfied with the level of services. And rising healthcare service costs due to advancement of medical technologies and medicine price hikes aggravates the stability of healthcare insurance fund.
Solutions to the healthcare issues are very difficult to find as conflicting
interests of various parties are intertwined. The study is designed to identify issues of current healthcare system and provide solutions from a 3rd party perspective.
The study identifies issues of Korea's healthcare system and the need for healthcare reform, analyses approaches to the issues and provides long-term vision based upon public survey. The study stresses that a reform, not backed by a consensus of the public, a major customers of healthcare service, will not succeed, no matter how logical it may be, and provides useful advices to healthcare reform policy makers.
Though it failed to cover all aspects of healthcare due to various restraints, the study provides a starting point for talks on future healthcare reform.
The fact that interest groups like 'Songchun Forum' and 'Korea Pharmaceutical and Medical Association' hold talks regularly about the future of industry is one of encouraging outcomes of this study.
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