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Yoon Gov should increase bio-health investment by 15% per yr
by Lee, Jeong-Hwan Jun 14, 2022 06:04am
Professor Park Eun-chulProfessor Park Eun-chul said, "We need to provide intensive support for disaster medical expenses after breaking away from the Moon administration." In order for the Yoon Seok-yeol government to innovate health care, it was suggested that the bio-health government's investment ratio should be drastically increased by more than 15% every year. It is pointed out that the current bio-health government research expenses of 2.8 trillion won in 2022 should be doubled to 5.6 trillion won in 2027, five years later. He also advised that the government should have a system to strengthen disaster medical expenses by reducing the target and increasing costs by breaking away from universal medical expenses. Professor Park Eun-chul of Yonsei University's Graduate School of Health made the claim at the 2022 Health and Medical Policy Symposium held at the Seoul National University Cancer Research Institute on the 10th. Professor Park announced the theme of the Yoon Seok-yeol government's health care innovation plan. He suggested that the Yoon government significantly increase the amount of investment in the bio-health government to improve health care. It presented the Bio 2022 Health and Medical Policy Symposium as a policy task to leap forward as a global-centered country for digital health. Professor Park said that for this, the reality that the citation rate of papers in the domestic medical field is too low should be improved, and the solution is to strengthen the government's bio-health investment rate. He believes that the amount of government research funds should be more than doubled compared to this year when the government's term expires by increasing biohealth government research funds by 15% per year. Professor Park said, "The private sector pays 75% of the nation's research expenses. Large companies are investing in R&D, and all nine of the top 10 investment companies are engineering-based companies. There is no way to grow biohealth by relying on private research funds. The government should support it," he explained. Also, he said, "Biohealth government research expenses should also be increased by 15% annually," adding, "The government research expenses should be expanded from 2.8 trillion won in 2022 to 5.6 trillion won in 2027." He also suggested that the Moon Jae In government, which advocates universal health care and welfare policies, should break away from the policy as soon as possible. The Yoon Seok-yeol government should strengthen support for disaster medical expenses from the past and establish an intensive support policy for the people in need of support, not the entire people. Professor Park said that the budget for disaster medical expenses support projects should be raised to at least 500 billion won by 50 billion won a year, and later to 2 trillion won. He said, "Since the health insurance budget is 80 trillion won, it is not too much to raise 50 billion won to 500 billion won in disaster medical expenses," adding, "Public medical ratio is 61.0%, far below the OECD average of 74.1%, and if disaster medical expenses are raised, it can reach the average." "The Moon government was expensive because it targeted the entire people. The Yoon government should implement an intensive approach policy, not a universal approach, he said. "If we focus on providing disaster medical expenses to the people in need, we do not need much financial resources."