Unilab Foundation studies to guide gov’t efforts to cut out-of-pocket health spending

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Government regulators and policy-makers have committed to institute fresh initiatives that will cut the out-of-pocket health spending of Filipinos using as guide the two research papers released recently by the Unilab Center for Health Policy , a program of Unilab Foundation.

Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman, Senate Committee on Health chairman Christopher Lawrence Go and House Health Committee chairman Ciriaco B. Gato Jr., in their solidarity messages, also vowed to use the results of the UCHP studies as inputs in shaping policy directions that reduce the out-of-pocket medical expenses of Filipinos and promote better transparency and accountability in health spending.

The PNHA is being collected annually since 1991, although this is the first instance where a time-analysis for 30 years is made. The national and local governments’ combined share is about 30 percent, while Philhealth accounts for only 14 percent.

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