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what filipinos can expect from the universal health care law? : all filipinos will be granted health coverage but not everything will be free universal health care law : - all Filipinos are covered - it is not completely free - PhilHealth will become the "national purchaser" of health goods and services - DOH will still be in charge of "population-based" health services - health systems will become city-wide and province-wide - A "Health Technology and Assessment Council" (HTAC) will be created - health information will be collected UHCL by NEDA : policy issue 1: limited coverage of the national health insurance program 2: overlapping of functions of govt agencies 2 | P a g e policy issue 1 : - limited coverage of the national health insurance program --- in 2017, about 54.5% of total health payment came from Filipinos' own pocket, with medicines and drugs as the main contributors. Lack of PhilHealth coverage of medicines for outpatients and the high cost of drugs and medicines in the country push the out-of-pocket expenditure up.
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