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

Minah Kang and Michael R. Reich

Health Policy, 2014, vol. 115, issue 1, 9-17

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health system governance; Priority-setting; Blame avoidance; Credit claiming; Health politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.09.015

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