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Health Insurance
Researchers at Seoul National University release new data on health insurance
February 7th, 2009
According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "South Korea introduced mandatory social health insurance for industrial workers in large corporations in 1977, and extended it incrementally to the self-employed until it covered the entire population in 1989." "Thirty years of national health insurance in Korea can provide valuable lessons on key issues in health care financing policy which now face many low- and middle-income countries aiming to achieve universal health care coverage, such as: tax versus social health insurance; population and benefit coverage; single scheme versus multiple schemes; purchasing and provider payment method; and the role of politics...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-02-07)
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