Pangasinan is PhilHealth model

By July 6, 2009Headlines, News

Pangasinan is now the global model for universal health insurance of indigents.

This was disclosed by PhilHealth Sr. Manager in his letter to Gov. Amado Espino Jr., expressing the agency’s plan to chronicle the accomplishment of the provincial government.

He said the journal covering the provincial government’s activities will be published in book form or distribution worldwide.

Based on the U.S. Agency International Development (USAID) benchmark, a province must enroll 140,000 indigents in PHilHealth to achieve the 100% universal coverage.

The province, on the second year of the Espino administration posted a total 185,789 indigent family enrollees.

Meanwhile, Regional Director Leo Douglas Cardona recently said that among the six districts of Pangasinan, the fourth district has the most number of PhilHealth sponsored enrollees.

It now has the biggest enrollees of PhilHealth throughout the country, surpassing Cebu’s record.

Recently, Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr.  distributed another 25,000 Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) cards to poor families in the fourth district.

Venecia, accompanied by his wife Gina, said the cards were scheduled to be distributed in   November but the outbreak of the Influenza A (H1N1) has made the distribution urgent.

“This (PhilHealth insurance) is a major defense of families in this time of economic crisis, in time with the upsurge of diseases, one of which is the influenza A (H1N1) that could affect poor families more,” he said.

He also revealed that the local government’s sponsorship program in PhilHealth was started by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. in 1997. The program has been copied since by other LGUs in the country.–LM

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