"Drug costs account for 30% of national health insurance"

Lee Tae-bok, former minister of Health and Welfare, has called on the incoming administration to make efforts to reduce medication costs, along with oil prices, mobile phone charges, credit card fee and bank interest rates.

In an interview with CBS radio program, Lee estimated that the drug cost accounted for 29.7 percent of the national health insurance in 2006, which is higher than those i...