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Between credit claiming and blame avoidance: The changing politics of priority-setting for Korea's National Health Insurance System

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  • Kang, Minah
  • Reich, Michael R.

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Priority-setting involves diverse parties with intense and often conflicting interests and values. Still, the political aspects of priority-setting are largely unexplored in the literature on health policy. In this paper, we examine how policy makers in Korea changed their strategies as the policy context for priority setting changed from only expanding benefits to a double burden of benefit expansion plus cost containment.

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  • Kang, Minah & Reich, Michael R., 2014. "Between credit claiming and blame avoidance: The changing politics of priority-setting for Korea's National Health Insurance System," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 115(1), pages 9-17.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:115:y:2014:i:1:p:9-17
    DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.09.015
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