universal health care
Universal Health Care: 5 years later
April 8, 2024
FEATURES
Five years of unfortunate health events seem to be just that, unfortunate, but clearly show the state’s systematic letting go of its responsibility to promote the people’s right to health.
PhilHealth Fail
April 1, 2024
Telltale signs that health care in the Philippines is not universal
October 5, 2020
COMMENTARY BY CASEY SALAMANCA
By hyping UHC, government pays lip service to the Filipino people’s right to health. The right to health pertains to a person’s overall well-being.
Spend on Public Health
September 29, 2020
INFOPOST
While PhilHealth gets the second biggest chunk of the health budget, households still shoulder over half of health expenses.
On Sin Tax: Raise direct taxes rather than consumer taxes –IBON
June 7, 2019
Research group IBON said that the passing of the Sin Tax Reform Bill made the country’s tax system more regressive by increasing consumer taxes that burden the poor while cutting income tax and corporate tax that make the rich even richer. As part of the government’s tax reform agenda, Senate Bill No.2233 or the Sin […]
Heed Cuba lessons, boost public health care, DOH urged
September 9, 2016
Research group IBON said that Filipinos will benefit if the government adopts Cuba’s model of a state-run health care system. The group stressed that people’s access to this social service is becoming more limited by Philippine health services being increasingly run by the private sector for profit. Department of Health (DOH) officials recently toured […]
Has PhilHealth, the country’s so-called universal health care program, benefited the Filipino people?
April 24, 2016
#BeyondElections2016 | All the presidential bets vow to continue Philhealth. But has this so-called universal health care program benefited the Filipino people? The 2015 National Government budget for PhilHealth rose to Php39.1 billion from only Php3.5 billion in 2011. It is now said to cover 87% of the entire population as of 2013. Yet, according […]
