Saturday, March 1, 2008

GMA News.tv :Patients shoulder most of health expenditure

Philippine National Health accounts show that almost half of the 165 billion-peso health national expenditure in the year 2004 were out-of-pocket, or from the patient's own money. Government spent only 30 percent, while social insurance's share was only nine percent.


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