Park Min-soo falsified the ‘doctor shortage investigation’ by disguising it as ‘increased personnel distribution policy’ and ‘dissenting opinions are also in favor’.
Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Park Min-soo changed the estimate of 'a shortage of 10,000 doctors in 2035', which was the result of a 'doctor shortage survey', into a 'study on increasing the number of doctors' and changed it into 'an annual distribution as an increase in the number of doctors, the highest policy'. .
Vice Minister Park transformed the service to investigate the shortage of doctors into a unique decision-making authority for the expansion policy, and the government decided on the policy of increasing the number of personnel by 2,000 people by ‘classifying the resolution in favor rather than against’ in response to the ‘different opinions’ that emerged from the lower-level deliberation organizations.
Regarding the increase in medical schools by 2,000 students on the 13th, Vice Minister Park said, “The timing, scale, and method of increasing the number of medical students were decided based on policy decisions,” based on the figures in the report on the results of the research funds paid by the three contract researchers based on the “scientific methodology” of the three contract researchers. 'Fine adjustment' for subcontracted services was replaced with a high-level policy that is the government's highest value.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare explained on this day, "Revision review is not a unanimous decision, and after in-depth discussion, we ultimately confirmed that there was no disagreement on the resolution of the agenda and decided on it." The 'dissenting opinion' was dismissed as 'no disagreement in the resolution'. Confirmed the policy decision.
The research services of the three institutions cited by Vice Minister Park as a basis correspond to the ‘survey of shortages’, and there is a large gap with the ‘research services to increase the number of doctors’.
Vice Minister Park said on this day, "Of the three supply and demand forecast reports referenced by the government, only the KDI report presented the scale of increase, and the researcher proposed a gradual increase of 5-7% of the number of personnel each year from 2024 to 2030." “However, the timing, scale, and method of increasing the number of personnel are a policy decision,” he said, and the government upgraded the ‘decision on 2,000 personnel next year’ to a ‘secret policy inherent authority’.
He continued, “The government has decided to increase the number of medical schools based on research reports based on multiple scientific methodologies that show that there will be a shortage of 10,000 doctors in 2035, which is less than 10 years away.” He added, “The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and KDI (an affiliate of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance) , Seoul National University's three reports commonly predicted a shortage of 10,000 doctors in 2035 through objective estimation methods, and there were discussions and reviews on this,” he said, adding that in the ‘three service requests’, only the ‘government-funded KDI’ was the last to increase the number of doctors. By mentioning it as an 'auxiliary comment', the original research service was a 'fact-finding survey' request, which is completely separate from the 'increase in troops'.
Regarding the 'doctor shortage' research service, Vice Minister Park said, "Considering that it takes at least 6 years to train doctors, we decided that the expansion of the doctor workforce could no longer be postponed." He said, “We decided to increase the number of employees by 2,000 in 2025 for supply purposes,” and “We decided that we could not postpone it any longer,” confirming the principle that “the urgent need for manpower expansion is determined behind closed doors by government officials.”
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said in a press release that day, "23 out of 25 members attended the meeting (revision review) on the 6th. 19 of the attendees were in favor of increasing the number of personnel by 2,000, and 4, including 3 members who were doctors, were against it." In this case, the opinion was in favor of the increase itself due to differences of opinion on the scale,” he said, and officially announced the situation by disguising the opposing opinion as a “favorable opinion.”
In order to make a policy decision on increasing the number of doctors, ‘disagreement on the number of troops to increase’ is naturally classified as ‘opposition to the decision to increase the number of doctors by 2,000’, and opposition to the number of increases presented by the government is classified as ‘opposition to the policy of increasing the number of doctors.’
At a press conference on the 9th, President Yoon Seok-yeol said, “Medical reform is a task that can no longer be postponed given our explosively increasing medical demand,” and he did not provide any basis for the ‘explosive increase in medical demand.’
Representative Lee Jae-myeong recruited Kim Yoon, a medical management professor who expanded the national health insurance screening system, as a proportional member of the National Assembly through a strengthening system for national health insurance through a rapid expansion in medical demand, and President-elect Kim repeatedly pledged to ‘confirm an increase of 2,000 people.’
The Yoon Seok-yeol and Lee Jae-myeong regime's financial strategy of 'expanding the total demand for medical care through public health' created a supply advantage and doctors became a means of issuing administrative orders.
The medical school quota situation of 2,000 students is a typical example of a bureaucratic system of administrative order dominance, with the medical industry taking the lead in the medical system, and the 'realistic despotism' of bureaucratic dictatorship in the supply superiority strategy based on the ideology of 'exploding future medical demand'.
ice Minister Park said on CBS Radio on February 27, “The government will invest 10 trillion won in the future to revive local and essential medical care. If the medical community goes on strike, what kind of people would agree to such a policy? “Please think rationally,” he said, revealing a supply-dominant strategic system for financial investment.
Vice Minister Park said about the ‘incentive demand theory’ in economics that medical expenses will increase as the number of doctors increases, “It has already been academically proven to be untrue,” and “The theory that medical expenses will increase as the number of doctors increases is a result of verification in advanced countries, including Korea. It was concluded that there was no correlation. “What affects the increase in medical expenses is aging and income level,” he said.
Vice Minister Park said on this day that the basis for increasing the number of doctors by 2,000 was the results of a study by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and Seoul National University, and that there is currently a shortage of 5,000 doctors, and if the current situation is maintained, there will be an additional shortage of 10,000 doctors by 2035, for a total shortage of 15,000.
He said on this day, “If we increase the number of students by 2,000 from 2025, we will produce graduates starting in 2031, increasing the number of students to 10,000 by 2035, and the remaining 5,000 students will be filled through personnel reallocation and fee increases,” and welfare officials said, “Medical school quota distribution policy.” 'Decision' governance structure was announced for the first time.