The Philippine Healthcare Budget

What the Philippine government spends on healthcare and what it produces

The Budget

The Philippine government health budget in the current fiscal year: approximately 300 billion pesos, representing approximately 4 percent of total government expenditure and approximately 0.8 percent of GDP. The international benchmark for health expenditure as a share of GDP: the WHO recommends a minimum of 5 percent of GDP for countries at the Philippine income level. The gap between the recommended and actual investment is the accountability question.

What It Produces

What the healthcare budget produces: PhilHealth operations and benefit payments that cover approximately 95 percent of the population in membership but a much smaller percentage of actual healthcare costs; the public hospital system that provides care to patients who cannot access private care; and the primary healthcare system that the Malasakit Centre and the Ayuda sa Kalusugan programmes attempt to extend. Each programme is real and insufficient for the population it serves.

Manila News PH Coverage

Manila News PH covers the healthcare budget because the accountability journalism of public health requires connecting the budget to the health outcomes it produces, and because the gap between the benchmark and the actual investment is the gap between the healthcare that Filipinos should be receiving and the healthcare they are receiving.

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