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Essay On Health Care Privatization In Korea

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“Rick, you don’t’ have any medical insurance, right? Then you have two options; pay us 60,000 dollars to suture the middle finger. Or pay us 12,000 dollars for the ring finger. Choose which surgery you will get.” Eventually he chose the latter and he threw his cut middle finger for gulls to eat. It’s a scene in the American documentary film ‘Sicko’ in 2008. It’s not just a scene of movie, but the real story that shows the tragic medical system in America. However, it also warns the Korean government’s motion for the new medical plan. Now, the Korean government seems to destruct the non-profit medical system and proceed to health care service provided by private entities instead of the government. It seems that it doesn’t bring negative effects, …show more content…

Thus, the health care privatization should not be implemented in Korea.
In 2010, President Barack Obama signed “Obamacare” into law. Obamacare on the purpose of declining the financial burden of health care is the sign of following the medical system of South Korea that has prohibited the hospital privatization. President Obama has tried to follow the non-profit medical field of South Korea. However, ironically, the Korean government seems to want to follow the American medical system. The South Korean government gradually takes a measure to ruin the non-profit medical system and makes a step forward to the ‘health care privatization’. The health care privatization is to privatize the nation’s medical system, allowing the private companies to operate. Let’s see the attempts of the implementation of Korean medical privatization from the early 2000s. The president Roh Moo-Hyun began to discuss in earnest the activation of private health insurance, and hospitals profit management. And then the Lee Myung-Bak government tried to privatize the medical system in 2008 but withdrew it in a short run, experiencing the crisis of regime with the candlelight rally against government’s American beef imports. Nevertheless, he didn’t stop it and the Park Geun-Hye government had given

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