[Contents] - Part1: Sustainable Health Care System - Ⅰ. Organization of the Committee on the Future of Health Care 5 1. Achievements of Korea's Health Care System 5 2. Evaluation of Korea's Health Care System 8 3. Background and Purpose of Organizing the Committee 10 Ⅱ. External and Internal Environment and Changes 17 1. The Need for New Strategy for National Properity 17 2. Low Fertility and Aging 19 3. Increasing Medical Expenditures and Unstable Health Insurance Financing 22 4. Advancement of Medical Technology and the Raised Status of Korea's Health Care Industry 24 Ⅲ. Health Care Financing Prospects: Short-to Mid-term Estimation of Future Medical Expenditure 29 1. Overview 29 2. Past Trend of Medical Expenditure 29 3. Short-to Mid-term Estimation of Medical Expenditure 34 Ⅳ. Main Results of the National Survey on the Direction of Health Care Policy 53 1. Survey Overview 53 2. Main Results 53 3. Policy Implications 65 V. Current Situations and Problems of Korea's Health Care System 69 1. Limits of Sustainability 69 2. Limites of Public Health Care and Coverage 89 3. Health Care Industry as Economic Engine 101 Ⅵ. The Vision and Policy Direction of Korea's Health Care 2020 107 1. The Vision 2020 109 2. Four Policy Directions based on Paradigm Shift 109 3. 10 Policy Proposals by the Future Health Care Committee 110 Part 2: Overview and Activities of the Future Health Care Committee Chapter 1. Overview of the Future Health Care Committee 131 Chapter 2. Main Activities of the Committee 139 141 1. Committee Minute 142 2. Committee Agenda 154 166 1. Committee Minute 167 2. Survey Plan on the Future of Health Care 179 3. Temporary Estimation of Mid-to Long-term Medical Expenditure and Socioeconomic Implications 184 198 1. Committee Minute and Reports by Subcommittees 199 2. Achievements of Medical Tourism and Revitalization Strategy 207 231 1. Committee Minute 232 2. Revising Chronic Disease Prevention and Management System 248 3. Proposals on the Development of Drug Industry and Rational Drug Expenditure 261 4. Revising Health Insurance Payment 284 5. Improving Health Insurance Premium Structure 297 6. Current State and Future Plan of Redefining the Functions of Different Medical Institutions 309 320 1. Committee Minute 321 2. The Results of the National Survey on Health Care Policy Direction 339 3. Revising Health Insurance Payment 357 4. Health Insurance Coverage Policy Direction and Securing Stable Financing 374 5. Advancing Health Resource Management 388 6. Expanding Public Health Care 404 416 1. Committee Minute 417 2. Improving Health Insurance Premium Payment System 437 3. Advancing Health Resource Management 451 4. Expanding Public Health Care 464 5. Protecting Medical Consumer Rights 476 6. Raising Research Hospitals 490 References 505