Health insurance covers 594.9 billion treating cardiovascular diseases last year

Last year, the government spent 5,949 trillion won as medication costs to treat a variety of cardiovascular diseases, which accounted for 5.1 percent of the total drug costs in 2009, according to Rep. Park Sang-eun.

Citing the data released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Park said that the national health insurance also paid 117.6 billion treating such disease using medical devices, ...