"Stop deceiving the public with an erroneous essential healthcare policy that lays the responsibility for wasteful spending of commercial healthcare to the patients.

Civic groups related to healthcare united and strongly voiced their opposition to the essential healthcare measures that were announced by the government.

The Korean Federation Medical Activist Groups For Health Rights (KFHR) issued a joint statement in the afternoon today (8th) to “condemn the erroneous essential healthcare policy that reduces coverage of the national health insurance and solidifies the commercial healthcare system.”

The Ministry of Health and Welfare had previously held a public hearing af