Soonman Kwon

TL;DR: This work estimates the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population and finds that in most low-/middle-income countries, the better-off not only pay more, they also get more health care.

TL;DR: This paper examines two recent supply-side reforms in Korea: Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) and Resource-based Relative Value (RBRV), which led to an almost uniform increase in fees for physician services without a mechanism to control the volume and expenditure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the changes made to Korean social policy in recent years, and consider their impact on the Korean welfare state, concluding that limited expansion of the Korean social welfare state is mainly an attempt to bolster industrial competitiveness and economic growth.

TL;DR: Lack of a strategic plan of implementation, failure to appreciate the change in the paradigm of health policy process, and failure to convince consumers of the benefits of the reform, are the major reasons that the historic reform of the separation of drug prescribing and dispensing has resulted in greater social cost than expected.

TL;DR: For those who utilize health care, PHI has a positive impact on outpatient expenditure, but not on the number of outpatient visits, and results imply a need for policy options to mitigate the moral hazard effect of PHI in the outpatient care sector.