11,000 families get PhilHealth in Pangasinan
Mangaldan – Some 11,000 families belonging to the poorest of the poor in Pangasinan received their Philippine Health Insurance cards last Sunday from Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr.
De Venecia paid one-half of the premiums of these families from his pork barrel allocation with the other half shouldered by PhilHealth.
“In these days when the cost of hospitalization can no longer be afforded by ordinary income-earners, most specially the poor, it pays to be PhilHealth holders,” de Venecia said.
There were 2,000 families who received their PhilHealth cards in Mangaldan, another 2,000 in San Jacinto, 2,000 in Manaoag, 2,000 in San Fabian and 3,000 in Dagupan City, all in de Venecia’s own fourth district of Pangasinan.
PhilHealth Regional Vice President Ernesto Beltran helped de Venecia in distributing the PhilHdealth cards to each of the recipient families.
A PhilHealth card holder enjoys free hospitalization not only for himself but also his family.
The provision for health insurance among poor families was among the strategies adopted by the government to alleviate poverty in the countryside
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