Credit to Author: Katie Way| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:38:09 +0000
One cool trick could eliminate record-smashing medical expenditures lost to administrative inefficiency, price hikes, and overtreatment: Nationalize coverage!
Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:51:17 +0000
The Pasig City government has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Rizal Medical Center aimed at boosting health care facilities and services.
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:11:12 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — An alliance of doctors, nurses, and other health workers and professionals raise serious doubts about the “predominantly commercial insurance-based Universal Health Care Law” in the wake of mid corruption allegations hounding the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth). In a statement, the Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) demanded PhilHealth to account for all […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:34:12 +0000
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Tuesday said higher taxes on so-called sin products were needed for people to fully enjoy the benefits of the newly signed universal health care (UHC) law which needed P22 billion more in funding.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:28:49 +0000
Raising the excise tax on alcoholic products could generate P32.3 billion in 2019 and help fund the proposed universal health care program.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 06:09:43 +0000
Sin tax advocates trooped to the Senate in Pasay City to call on senators to pass the bill seeking higher excise tax on tobacco products.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:23:58 +0000
The Senate ways and means committee wants to look closely first into the plans of the Department of Health (DOH) for implementing universal health care and how it used its previous budgets before determining how much it would increase tobacco taxes.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:52:50 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Senator JV Ejercito welcomed the approval of President Rodrigo Duterte on the proposal to raise excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products, saying it would allow the “sustainable implementation” of the universal healthcare bill (UHC).
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:14:38 +0000
In anticipation of the signing of the Universal Health Care, Senator Pacquiao renewed his call to raise the excise tax on tobacco products.
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