South Korea has a big culture, but how did its health care start? Where is it now? South Korea has different types of healthcare and they are all accessed by different ways, kind oh how the United State 's healthcare is set up. There are many factors that influence healthcare in South Korea, such as the economy, how much one earns, and if people need assistance. Healthcare in South Korea is dependent on many things which will allow it to continue. Health insurance takes a while to build, but South Korea achieved its universal health insurance in just 12 years (Lee 2003; 48-51). Building a healthcare system and insurance in that quick of time shows how Koreans were capable of building this and supporting it. Many saw that this would be failure
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This financial support was surely a burden on the NHI because having to help all the people who are low income really lowered the stability of healthcare itself, to the point it had to seek financial support from another institution. At this point health expenditures have exceeded total income and the financial deficit grew worse (Lee 2003; 48-51). These financial troubles lead to higher policy costs. Financial troubles were inevitable at this time and they knew that government funding would not help at this point. There are more than one typology, NHI is one, but there is also National Health Services, Social Health Insurance, and Private Health Insurance (Lee 2008; 105). These typologies show that there are many more accessible insurances which can better suit a variety of …show more content…
The economic development had a positive relationship to life expectency because when the economy was well off then there was more funding in health insurance and people were more likely to go to a doctor for mostly any serious symptom which would eventually lead to a diagnostic. This diagnostic could be either good or bad, and thus lead to getting quicker treatment and having a higher rate of survival if it was serious. On the contrary, people may not visit a doctor because the insurance copayment is too high, which would lead to symptoms being ignored and life expectancy to decline. Universal health coverage was given by the National Health Insurance or NHI for short, and it only took 12 years (Jeong 2005; 133-145). In Korea, private hospitals and clinics account for 90% of the total number of medical institutions, with that about 90% of specialist doctors are employed to the private sector (Jeong 2005; 133-145). These private sectors are usually relatively expensive compared to the public sectors where they can be publically funded. Patients also have the freedom to choose care providers and their choice of western or oriental medicine (Jeong 2005; 133-145). The choice allowed for them to chose between what they believed was right for them, because there is different types of medicine and they 're not only confined to
This financial support was surely a burden on the NHI because having to help all the people who are low income really lowered the stability of healthcare itself, to the point it had to seek financial support from another institution. At this point health expenditures have exceeded total income and the financial deficit grew worse (Lee 2003; 48-51). These financial troubles lead to higher policy costs. Financial troubles were inevitable at this time and they knew that government funding would not help at this point. There are more than one typology, NHI is one, but there is also National Health Services, Social Health Insurance, and Private Health Insurance (Lee 2008; 105). These typologies show that there are many more accessible insurances which can better suit a variety of …show more content…
The economic development had a positive relationship to life expectency because when the economy was well off then there was more funding in health insurance and people were more likely to go to a doctor for mostly any serious symptom which would eventually lead to a diagnostic. This diagnostic could be either good or bad, and thus lead to getting quicker treatment and having a higher rate of survival if it was serious. On the contrary, people may not visit a doctor because the insurance copayment is too high, which would lead to symptoms being ignored and life expectancy to decline. Universal health coverage was given by the National Health Insurance or NHI for short, and it only took 12 years (Jeong 2005; 133-145). In Korea, private hospitals and clinics account for 90% of the total number of medical institutions, with that about 90% of specialist doctors are employed to the private sector (Jeong 2005; 133-145). These private sectors are usually relatively expensive compared to the public sectors where they can be publically funded. Patients also have the freedom to choose care providers and their choice of western or oriental medicine (Jeong 2005; 133-145). The choice allowed for them to chose between what they believed was right for them, because there is different types of medicine and they 're not only confined to