정부지원금Fortunately, due to the struggle of the National Health Insurance Workers’ Union and strong protests by civil society groups against attempts to abolish government support for health insurance, government support for health insurance was extended for another five years. However, the Yoon Seok-yeol government, which is said to be worried about the financial collapse of health insurance, did not legislate permanent support in the end. Rather, he said he would discuss “the appropriate ratio of government support.”
Right-wing governments, including the Yoon Seok-yeol government, are relatively less interested in strengthening the health insurance system. This was the case with the Lee Myung-bak government, which attempted to privatize health insurance, and the Yoon Seok-yeol government, which attempted to reduce health insurance coverage and fund health insurance. Of course, the Yoon Seok-yeol government is not strong enough to blatantly reduce government support, and public opinion is not so lenient.
However, it is true that the Yoon Seok-yeol government neglects health insurance. One of them is delaying the payment of 10.9 trillion won in government subsidies for health insurance allocated in the budget. Among previous governments, there has never been a case where health insurance subsidies allocated in the budget were delayed like this. However, this government is said to have only recently paid out about 2 trillion won out of the 10.9 trillion won allocated to the budget, which is unprecedented. Since the money has been allocated in the budget, there is no reason to delay it.
As the National Health Insurance Union had feared, there is a possibility that the Yoon Seok-yeol government may postpone the payment of government subsidies and suspend execution of some of the remaining subsidies. This is mainly because a severe tax revenue shortage occurred due to tax cuts for the rich. You should not try to shift responsibility for what happened due to your own wrong policies to someone else.
The Yoon Seok-yeol government’s delay in paying subsidies while talking about the collapse of health insurance finances only shows that it has little interest in strengthening health insurance finances. The Yoon Seok-yeol government must immediately pay the full amount of government subsidies.
November 2, 2023
Movement headquarters to block medical privatization and realize free medical care, Solidarity for securing the right to health of the poor, Alliance of health care organizations for the realization of the right to health (Nurs Association for Realization of the Right to Health, Pharmaceutical Association for a Healthy Society, Dental Association for a Healthy Society) Society, Labor and Health Solidarity, Humanitarian Practitioner Association, Young Oriental Medical Doctors Association for True Medicine), Healthy World Network, Young Christian Medical Association, Daejeon City Hospital Establishment Movement Headquarters, Korea Medical Welfare Social Cooperative Association, Health Insurance Hanaro Citizens’ Association, Korea Federation of Democratic Trade Unions, Korea Federation of Trade Unions, National Health and Medical Industry Workers’ Union, National Public Transport and Social Service Union, Public Transport Workers’ Union Medical Solidarity Headquarters, National Health Insurance Workers’ Union, National Federation of Health Industry Trade Unions, National Federation of Farmers’ Associations, Korea Central Federation of Agricultural Entrepreneurs, National Federation of Women Farmers’ Associations, National Women’s Solidarity, Solidarity for the Liberation of the Poor (Korean Workers’ Union, Union of Korean Workers’ Union), National Federation of the Poor (Korean Union of Trade Unions, Union of Korean Workers’ Union), Street Workers’ Solidarity, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, Catholic Poor People’s Pastoral Committee, For True Education National Parents’ Association, National Parents’ Association for the Realization of Equal Education, Social Progressive Alliance, Workers’ Solidarity, Learning Center for the Disabled, Ilsan Hospital Labor Union, National School Lunch Network, Group Preparing for the Future of Pharmacists, Action Doctors Association, Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service Labor union, National Federation of Information Economy and Service Labor Unions, Health Policy Participation Research Institute, Gilbot, Oriental Medicine Clinic Group with the People, National Health Teachers’ Labor Union
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