another way to look at the burden of oop payments for health spending is to consider this spending as a share of total household consumption as a share of total household consumption outofpocket medical spending excluding any spending on longterm care accounted on average for of the final consumption of all households in korea in this is much higher than the average across oecd countries on average and more than two times greater than across g countries oecd figure in korea the share of the costs covered by the public insurance scheme is relatively low for all health services and pharmaceuticals and even lower for dental care nearly of all outofpocket spending for health care in korea excluding longterm care is related to curative care in hospital or outside hospital about is for the purchase of pharmaceuticals and the other is for dental care