In order to strengthen health insurance coverage for anticancer drugs and treatments for severe rare diseases, legislation will be promoted to separately establish "severe disease accounting."

On the 20th, Rep. Lee Jong-sung of the People's Power proposed a partial amendment to the National Health Insurance Act. Rep. Lee Jong-sung argued that health insurance coverage for treatments for severe and rare diseases has been reduced over the past five years of the Moon Jae In government. Lee explained that President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged to expand the application of health insurance for treatments for severe and rare diseases and adopted "relaxing the burden of high-priced medical expenses, such as the rapid