A Blue House Medical Drive … ‘Manjijak’ Democratic Medical Law Amendment

Jeong Ki-soo, Kang Ki-jung, meets and greets Kim Tae-nyeon, the deputy representative of the Democratic Party, with the Seoul Yeouido National Assembly on the morning of 15. [연합뉴스]

The Blue House and the government have established a policy to allow telemedicine. Kang Ki-jung, president of the Blue House, visited the National Assembly on the 15th and met with journalists. “For the safety of both citizens and doctors, we need to design enough face-to-face (medical) infrastructure.” On this day, a key Blue House official met with reporters and said, “I intend to implement a non-confrontational medical system. Rather, it is deemed to have publicity.” The Blue House led the observation that a push would be needed to revise the medical passport law in favor of the government.

In addition to the ruling party and the Democratic Party, the issue of the legislative process will be established and the scope of telemedicine deregulation will be deregulated. As of now, “It is not a specific political promotion” (Kwan-Seok Yoon, senior vice president of the Democratic Party Policy Committee) is sending a message. A key Democratic Party official said: “There is a need to review and discuss the crown’s non-face-to-face medical data focused on the Party Policy Office and the Health and Welfare Committee, which is a permanent member of the National Assembly.”

◇ “Limited to” crown response “”= It was a new coronavirus infection (Corona19) that led to the discourse on allowing remote medical care. A key source from the Blue House explained: “At Corona 19, 26 million cases have been performed so far to allow medical treatment in February of last year to ensure the safe treatment of patients and medical staff and to resolve the problem. of reduced medical accessibility due to concerns about infection. ” It was accompanied by the assessment that “it has been operating for more than three months and has made important achievements in protecting national security.”

A telemedicine scene at a hospital in Korea. [중앙포토]

The Blue House sketch is closer to establishing a system for responding to infectious diseases by encouraging temporary consultations on telephone counseling in accordance with current crown preventive measures (such as amendments to the Prevention and Management Act of Infectious diseases). “Corona 19 is likely to cause a winter pandemic” (Eung-Kyung Jung, Head of the Center for Disease Control) prepares for the warning. Chief Kang told reporters earlier today: “Isn’t it necessary to prepare for the second pandemic crisis in winter?”

◇ When reviewing medical law, the water level is= It is not clear whether the proposed amendment to the medical law will be limited to minimal deregulation. This is because the pilot project has been in progress for more than 10 years, and the debate over the pros and cons of the current government has been hotly contested. In July 2018, the Minister of Health and Welfare at Neung-hoo Park said: “If you do not ride the wave of remote medical care, it will be difficult for the world’s best Korean medical technology and services to maintain the highest position in the world”. I withdrew my comments.

The Democratic Party once said: “There has already been something in the past. I will investigate based on that. ” In August 2018, after the Moon Jae-in government’s launch, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Democratic Party once discussed a limited range of telemedicine promotions in party policy consultations. The plan was made to allow remote medical treatment only for military units, prisons, sea vessels, islands, and wallpaper residents, and it even prepared a representative proposal for amendments to the medical law in 2019, but it collapsed due to the reaction of civic groups. The passport is said to be considering ways to expand the scope of the remote medical treatment allowance.

At the press conference on the morning of the 15th in the “19th Civil Society Countermeasures for Response to the Social and Economic Crisis Corona 19”, held in the Beautiful River Hall of Solidarity with the Participation of Seoul, Park Seok- Woon, the joint representative of the Corona 19 Civil Society Response Committee, is halting the promotion of the remote medical service and urging the government to strengthen public health. [뉴스1]

In addition to this, only the infectious disease response system promoted by the Blue House in the name of “face-to-face medical care” is added, highlighting the possibility of promoting selective acceptance. However, it is an important variable that some interest groups, such as the Korean Medical Association (Council) are already predicting strong opposition saying, “I will stop cooperating with Corona.”

There is also a saying in the official government that “government traffic control is the priority.” In addition to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which is the ministry of the ministry, is carrying out the minimum revision of the medical law, the Ministry of Information and Technology focused on passing the Basic Law on the Development of the Service Industry that is started in 2012 and secretly lobbying for a broader range of deregulation.

The Blue House announced that 260,000 telephone calls made by Corona 19 were counted primarily for medical treatment for ▶ 60 years or older ▶ Daegu · Gyeongbuk ▶ Large hospitals and neighborhood hospitals. Statistics are far from the concerns of the Democratic Party, which opposed telemedicine because “patients entering the general hospital and primary and secondary medical institutions will be closed.”

By reporter Shim Sa-rom, [email protected]