Explosion of healthcare expenditure will politicize issues of health financing and resource allocation which has been understood as technical policy agenda. Political fundamentals of health and healthcare system will be threatened by emerging problems...
Explosion of healthcare expenditure will politicize issues of health financing and resource allocation which has been understood as technical policy agenda. Political fundamentals of health and healthcare system will be threatened by emerging problems of rapid aging, technology innovation, and new family structure. However, current health-related social policies are to cope with traditional social risks, labor market related ones in particular. Also 'transformation' pf welfare state, such as social investment state, is not adequately dealing with health and healthcare by mainly focusing on financial sustainability. This paper is to insist health and healthcare system including health financing must be radically reformed, based on a new principle of equity and social justice in health and healthcare.