While PhilHealth has heeded two presidents' directives to suspend rate hikes, it has underscored the importance of amending the Universal Health Care law.
MANILA, Philippines – House Speaker Martin Romualdez and four other top congressional leaders filed a measure seeking to give the Philippine president authority to suspend the scheduled increase in monthly contributions of members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation .
The bill was filed on January 16, but Romualdez’s office publicized the proposed measure on Sunday, January 29.on PhilHealth’s scheduled increase of the premium rate and income ceiling for 2023, citing “prevailing socioeconomic challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.” PhilHealth had said that “should there be no new legislation passed for this purpose, the state health insurer will proceed with the scheduled premium rate and ceiling as provided for in the UHC law.”
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