The core social insurance is a mandatory system that ensures the livelihood of citizens by providing benefits for medical events such as injury, disease, childbirth, old-age and disability. All citizens must be covered by one of the following insurance plans; 1) employee’s health insurance for employed individuals, 2) national health insurance for self-employed individuals and those out of employment, and 3) the healthcare system for later-stage elderly for the people aged 75 years or older (JNA, 2006). Each of these plans operate through government regulation and requires only a minimal out-of-pocket each month based on a three tier system which takes income and age into consideration. Aside from the monthly out-of-pocket a patient may also be responsible for paying a percentage of consultation fees to the healthcare institute where services were rendered. Healthcare institutions may then submit a medical claim to the insurers to receive a reimbursement. Healthcare expenditures are paid on a fee-for-service…