특별기고 : 의료위기의 본질과 과제 = Health Care Crisis: Major Features, Background and Policy Issues

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

These days many people believe that we are in a health care crisis. Perhaps, this belief resulted from our unfortunate experience with the unprecedented nationwide strike by physicians which had lasted for several months in 2000 and the recent financial crisis of the health insurance system. In order to observe major features of the crisis situation, a brief review of the health care system was made. The aggressive implementation of health insurance unification, the separation of dispensing practice from medical pratice and the promotion of other reform policies of doubtful effectiveness and feasibility are blamed for the current crisis situation. However our health care system has had fundamental problems for a long time and they may be seen as the background for the situation. foremost of them is our society has given policy attention and resources to health care far less than it deserves in view of the state of our nation`s development. Based upon the observation of the major features and background of our current health care problems, this paper proposes four policy issues which should be given priority in our efforts for health care improvement.