The Universal Health Care Act is a Philippine law signed on 20 February 2019, principally authored in the House of Representatives by Angelina Tan and sponsored in the Senate by JV Ejercito. It instituted major reforms to the country's health care system by automatically enrolling all Filipino citizens in the National Health Insurance Program and granting them immediate eligibility for health benefits, dividing members into direct contributors who pay premiums and indirect contributors whose premiums are subsidized by government. The World Health Organization characterized the law as the culmination of several decades of Philippine health sector reform, addressing a fragmented prior system in which out-of-pocket spending had accounted for roughly fifty four percent of the country's total health expenditure before enactment.
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Target Population Health GoalProtect and promote the right to health of all Filipinos 1 Classification
Program KindHealth Insurance or Financing Program 1 Connections
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Source Republic Act No. 11223 (Universal Health Care Act), Lawphil
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1. Republic Act No. 11223 (Universal Health Care Act), Lawphil
Approval line in the Act header
Approved: February 20, 2019
Section 5, Population Coverage, first sentence
Every Filipino citizen shall be automatically included into the NHIP
Section 2, Declaration of Principles and Policies, first sentence
protect and promote the right to health of all Filipinos
Program classification, entity description sentence
It instituted major reforms to the country's health care system by automatically enrolling all Filipino citizens in the National Health Insurance Program and granting them immediate eligibility for health benefits, dividing members into direct contributors who pay premiums and indirect contributors whose premiums are subsidized by government.
Associated With: Health Systems and Policy, Page text
An Act Instituting Universal Health Care for All Filipinos, Prescribing Reforms in the Health Care System, and Appropriating Funds Therefor
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