Medicines are next

Marso 30, 2026

FEATURES

At face value it may sound like a gentle reminder that prevention is better than cure, but it screams a harder truth: Filipinos cannot afford to be sick.

2026 Health Budget: Alarming symptoms of sick governance

Pebrero 5, 2026

FEATURES

But a closer examination of the 2026 national budget reveals alarming symptoms of sick governance.

Overwhelmingly underfunded

Nobyembre 8, 2025

“As I was being wheeled out of the hospital, I took vivid mental note of the institution’s decrepit condition – details I may have overlooked while receiving care from our underpaid health workers.”

Where are the hospitals with Zero Balance Billing?

Agosto 13, 2025

PhilHealth’s No Balance or Zero Balance Billing program is available in only 78 Department of Health hospitals and 4 GOCC hospitals nationwide, with five still under development. But only patients in basic accommodation or ward sections can avail of this benefit. Despite this program, the government has failed to substantially decrease the share of out-of-pocket […]

PhilHealth rate hikes long overdue

Agosto 11, 2025

Critical Health Bar

Abril 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.

Reducing PhilHealth’s finances only makes it more difficult to meet its already unmet targets

Pebrero 25, 2025

Related: The implications on the right to health and the people of issues raised in GR Nos 274778, 275405, and 276233

Gov’t mishandling of PhilHealth violates right to health, exposes budget mispriorities

Pebrero 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

Disyembre 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.