With a mission of ensuring Filipinos’ adequate financial access to health care services, the government owned corporation is also said to have accumulated billions of debts and has been slammed for giving poor citizens additional financial burden by increasing its premium rates.
“To be hospitalized is not a choice for most poor Filipinos. Besides being sick, they have to worry about buying medicine and paying hospital bills,” said Bernadette.
Henry Hilab, 52, is just one of the millions of Filipinos who can’t manage to have his disease treated due to poverty. His condition, which was diagnosed 16 years ago, continues to worsen because of lack of health insurance and access to medical care.
Just how problematic is the state of health insurance in the Philippines? How can PhilHealth attain its goal of reaching the poorest of Filipinos?
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