A survey found that more than 8 of 10 Koreans are in favor of increasing health insurance spending on new health technologies and new drugs to treat severe diseases such as cancer and rare diseases.

Also, over 80% of the respondents agreed that the proportion of new drugs in total health insurance pharmaceutical spending should be increased and that health insurance should promptly cover new drugs.

On the 19th, the Future Health Network (representative Ok-Ryun Moon, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University), a think tank in the field of healthcare, unveiled the survey results that contained the results above at a ‘Policy Debate for Health Insurance Reform that the People Want’ t