Indigents joined under the 2018 Universal Health Care Act. PhilHealth gets sin taxes on alcohol, tobacco, sweets. Total: 41.84 million.
Self-entitled senators, congressmen, Presidents, VPs and Cabinetmen treat PhilHealth as government money.
They divert our money to pork barrels and political ayuda – then punish us members for faults of PhilHealth appointees.
We lack basic health benefits: doctor's consultation, x-ray, blood works, urine and stool tests, mammogram, prostate ultrasound, eye-ear-nose-throat-dental checks.
Only if hospitalized do we receive P5,500, one percent of total bill, in return for our decades-long contributions.
Destitutes are worse off. To enjoy benefits they must queue up for Medical Assistance for Indigent Patients, indebting them to politicos.
Ledesma doesn't care. He's busy planning a P138-million banquet, with P2,500-giveaway umbrellas, on PhilHealth's 30th anniversary this year. He didn't care that 4,000 deceased members are still in the database.
MAIP political requests and billion-peso PhilHealth releases double each year, former finance undersecretary Cielo Magno exposed.
In January 2024, PhilHealth CEO Emmanuel Ledesma raised our contributions to P500-P5,000 a month "for added benefits." Finance Sec. Ralph Recto then snatched P90 billion from PhilHealth for roadworks.
Saying it was on President Bongbong Marcos' order, Ledesma gave in "like a good soldier." The Congress supermajority cheered.
The 96,000-strong Philippine Medical Association, 72 specialist societies, a million nurses, labor federations, businessmen and professionals, religious leaders, retired generals, former Cabinet members, academics and NGOs protested.
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