The Future of Health Care in South Korea and the UK

Matthews, Bob; Jung, Yoonsoon

doi:10.1017/s1474746406003058

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“…Since the operationalization of the existence of a gatekeeper might be controversial, we carefully take the results of previous research in this context into account. We follow Barros (1998), Okunade et al (2004), Matthews and Jung (2006) and Commonwealth Fund (2012) to determine whether or not a country has a gatekeeper.…”

Section: Theorizing Globalization and Healthcare Spendingmentioning

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Globalization and healthcare policy: a constraint on growing expenditures

Fervers¹,

Oser²,

Picot³

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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Research on globalization and social policy has indicated that differentiating between policy fields is a promising way to disentangle the complex relationship between global economic integration and welfare states. Moreover, while there is a specific literature on healthcare spending, it has so far neglected globalization as a potential influence. Consequently, this article examines the impact of globalization on healthcare expenditure. We probe, in addition, whether the relationship varies between different types of healthcare systems. We analyse 22 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) states from 1980 to 2009 in pooled time-series regressions. The results show that an increase in economic openness leads to lower spending growth. As theoretically expected, this relation is stronger in countries with social health insurance systems. This suggests that growing costs of healthcare are increasingly seen as a burden in international economic competition. Owing to strong secular trends of increasing expenditure, it does not translate into lower levels but lower growth of expenditure.

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Section: Theorizing Globalization and Healthcare Spendingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization and healthcare policy: a constraint on growing expenditures

Fervers¹,

Oser²,

Picot³

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…Social solidarity, equity, and efficiency in financing system were greatly enhanced after the transition to NHI system through the integration reform in both Korea and Taiwan [12,16,28,30,31]. The reason of those improvements in the two countries' health care system may have been due to the integration of multiple insurers into a single pipe.…”

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The National Health Insurance system as one type of new typology: The case of South Korea and Taiwan

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“…In 1977, the South Korean government introduced compulsory health insurance for private companies with more than 500 employees. From 1989, the National Health Insurance has protected 97 per cent of all the population and Medicaid has covered the remainder who lack the ability to pay the insurance premium (Matthews and Jung 2006). The health‐care system in South Korea is characterised by an important role played by the private sector in health‐care delivery.…”

Section: Institutional Differences Between Health‐care Systemsmentioning

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“…46, No. 1, February 2012 remainder who lack the ability to pay the insurance premium (Matthews and Jung 2006). The health-care system in South Korea is characterised by an important role played by the private sector in health-care delivery.…”

Section: Institutional Differences Between Health-care Systemsmentioning

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The Contributions of the Health Decommodification Typologies to the Study of the East Asian Welfare Regime

2011

Soc Policy Adm

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Since Esping-Andersen presented the three worlds of welfare typology thesis, the study of the classification of welfare regimes has been dominated by his work and the debates surrounding it. This article is concerned with two important responses to his work. The first response is the development of welfare typologies based on the principle of decommodification. The second response is the concern that East Asian countries are underrepresented in the 18 members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studied by Esping-Andersen. As a result, there are calls for expanding the scope of the studies on the classification of welfare regimes to those in East Asia.This article makes contributions to these two responses by presenting two analytical tasks. The first task is to develop two health decommodification typologies based on two different methods (cluster analysis and Esping-Andersen's index-based regime construction). Both of them cover the 18 OECD members studied by Esping-Andersen and four tiger economies (Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore). The second task is to demonstrate that the two health decommodification typologies provide important information for the debate on the existence of two essential preconditions for the development of an all-encompassing East Asian welfare regime, namely the existence of significant differences in the welfare systems between the East Asian countries and the 18 OECD countries studied by Esping-Andersen (1990) and the existence of significant similarities in the welfare systems between East Asian countries.

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The Future of Health Care in South Korea and the UK

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Globalization and healthcare policy: a constraint on growing expenditures

Globalization and healthcare policy: a constraint on growing expenditures

The National Health Insurance system as one type of new typology: The case of South Korea and Taiwan

The Contributions of the Health Decommodification Typologies to the Study of the East Asian Welfare Regime

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