NOP maintains that Philhealth together with the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is nothing but a grand deception scheme by the Aquino government under its “Kalusugan Pangkalahatan” Program. Despite Herbosa’s claim that Philhealth will provide “free hospitalization, medicines, and laboratory services” under its “No Balance, No Billing” policy, current conditions and actual billing policies in public hospitals prove otherwise.
“Poor patients are forced to shell out hard-earned cash to pay for medicines and laboratory fees even in public hospitals even though they are Philhealth members,” the group said. Philhealth’s benefit coverage is very limited and covers only a small fraction of a patient’s hospital bill. Aside from limited coverage, Philhealth’s 5.2 million poor beneficiaries enrolled in its indigent program falls far from Social Weather Station’s (SWS) survey revealing that there is an estimated 11.1 million poor Filipino families.
By removing charity wards in public hospitals, the government will only make matters worse for the sick poor. NOP challenges PNoy to take a stand for marginalized Filipinos and not accede to the interests of private investors in the corporatization scheme.##
Reference:
Sean Velchez, R.N.
Convenor
NETWORK OPPOSED TO PRIVATIZATION
0927-9259413 / (+632) 929-8109
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