Health Insurance Union “Inevitably increases insurance premiums when government support for health insurance ends”

The National Health Insurance Corporation’s union argued that “when the government’s temporary financial support for health insurance ends at the end of this year, the burden will fall on the public and health insurance premiums will increase by 18% or more every year.”

The health insurance union held a policy debate at the National Assembly today (6th) and said, “The sunset system for financial support for health insurance should be abolished and the support rules should be made clearer.”

The National Health Insurance Act amended in 2007 requires the government to support 14% of the expected health insurance premium income from the national treasury and 6% from the Health Promotion Fund.

At the time of the amendment of the law, the provision of the ‘five-year limited time support provision’ was included, but following repeated extensions just before the expiration, the deadline will expire on December 31 of this year.

A union representative of the health insurance union said, “If government support is cut off as scheduled, health insurance premiums need to be raised by 18.6 to 18.7 percent from the current level to cover the 10 trillion won in support this year. It will go up by more than one won,” he said.

Meanwhile, since 2007, when the law was enacted, the actual government financial support has been less than 20%. The amount of government support in 2019 was 13.3%, in 2020 14.8%, and in 20201 13.8%.

Currently, there are proposed amendments to the National Assembly that clarify the support regulations, such as deleting the sunset regulation of ‘5-year limited-time support’ or compensating for the difference.

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