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The Effects of Private Health Insurance Expenses on National Health System

YongJae Lee 1

1호서대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study analyzed the effects of private health insurance (PHI) expenses on the National Health System of OECD countries. The major results of the research are as follows. First, in the countries where the citizens have good health, the national health expenses are larger, but where the public health service system covers only a small population, the PHI expenses are small. Second, the countries with large PHI expenses show the good health condition of the citizens. Third, the countries with large PHI expenses are increasing their national health expenses. These results reveals that countries with large pressures on their public health expenses tend to raise their national health expenses and depend on PHI in order to control the public health expenses. If PHI was activated in Korea, the burdens on the citizens could be increased for increasing the national health expenses.Therefore, the implementation of PHI in the application of private insurance must proceed prudently.

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