Concerns over Lee Jae-myung Administration's Plan to Cut Support for 450,000 Elderly Patients with Hypertension and Diabetes

‌Experts express concern over the restructuring of the support project for 450,000 elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes. Daum | Medical News [Medical News/Daily Pharmaceutical = Reporter Lee Jae-won] As the government moves to launch the Community-based Primary Care Innovation Pilot Project while simultaneously restructuring the Hypertension and Diabetes Registration and Management Project into Integrated Chronic Disease Management Centers—proposing a reduction in medical and pharmaceutical expense support for existing elderly patients—concerns have been raised that this could undermine the core mechanisms of the proven community-based chronic disease management system. With the new primary care innovation project utilizing integrated fees and multidisciplinary teams
while spending massive budgets, it is truly a pathetic government regarding where the money is actually being spent.