Philippine health system

Critical Health Bar
April 12, 2025
While I felt relieved to finally have a diagnosis and a treatment plan, I still had to figure out how to afford it.

Whither maternal and newborn survival?
April 8, 2025

Filipinos lack access to basic health resources
April 7, 2025

On World Health Day:
Big Pharma rules an ailing nation
April 7, 2025
Global health remains in the clutches of Big Pharma, which has detrimental effects not only on mortality, diseases and prevention but entirely on the right to health

Gov’t mishandling of PhilHealth violates right to health, exposes budget mispriorities
February 5, 2025
The PhilHealth controversy is only a specific example of worsening underfunding of social services and social protection. It further reveals how flawed the budget process is.

PhilHealth Zero Subsidy: Reflection of Government Neglect
December 23, 2024
Abruptly defunding the insurance agency will not address the growing problems of health financing, especially without concrete steps from the government to resolve them.

BBM for health? Not really
December 17, 2024
The lack of essential health facilities reflects the broader deficiencies in the country’s healthcare infrastructure and its inability to provide adequate care to millions of Filipinos, particularly the poor.

The Price of Privatized Healthcare
February 14, 2024

The spiteful fangs of Putol
November 17, 2023
Little did I know that my run-in with Putol would put me through the stresses of the Philippine health system.