Success or Failure of Health Care Reform in South Korea

In just 12 years, SOUTH KOREA established universal healthcare. The government first required medical insurance for employees and their dependents in large businesses with more than 500 employees in 1977, marking the modest beginning of this extraordinary achievement. The entire country was given access to national health insurance (NHI) in 1989. The majority of Western analysts were shocked. Although financial patterns between 1990 and 1995 d....