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A policy forum on inequities in access to quality health care
May 14, 2009
  As a paramount national concern, access to health care has mobilized policy makers and stakeholders to consider urgent steps to bridge the glaring gap between access to health care by the poor and the rich. But access is just one of the indicators of health care inequities that policy makers must address now.
Reducing prices not enough to help the poor
February 25, 2009
  New public policies seeking to lighten the financing burden on the poor are great signs for broader access to health care. But such thrust must go beyond prices. CLD's new study point out that health care will remain beyond the reach of the poor despite the projected price reductions simply because of their extremely weak purchasing power.
Kapihan Para sa Kalusugan
February 17, 2009
  CLD, through its Health Policy Network project will launch its first Kapihan Para sa Kalusugan, a media forum to tackle policy issues of the day.
2nd Health Policy Meeting: A Panel Discussion on Access to Healthcare: Issues and Options
January 16, 2009
  Broadening access to health care goods and services is the most compelling argument presented by policy makers in pursuing recent policy initiatives and won nationwide support. While important or indispensable, the provision of health services does not guarantee that everyone in need will be able to use them or benefit from them.
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Health versus Wealth of Nations

The Group of 20, led by US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown effectively declared the futility of Adam Smith's treatise on wealth of nations as it announced a trillion dollar program to repair the global financial system. Gathered in a huff in London, the G20 leaders (comprised of the world's top 20 economies) recently issued a joint declaration that contained a common response to the world crisis that includes plans to strengthen financial supervision and regulation and funding for bailout programs. Rebuke on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. In a communique, the G20 leaders promised new rules that will regulate financial institutions and risky instruments that brought the world's financial system to its knees. A clear rebuke on economist Adam Smith's treatise that the invisible hand would provide the self-correcting mechanism for free markets, the G20 plans impose unprecedented government supervision while promising a sustained market intervention to restore economic growth.

 

Inequities in access to quality health care, a major threat to the poor

Mass migration of Filipino medical personnel (particularly by nurses and doctors), decline in health care spending, and fragmentation of the country’s health care system due to devolution have led to an alarming deterioration of the quality of health care services in the country. Unless effective policy measures are adopted immediately, the Philippine health care system could further deteriorate rapidly and see more Filipinos left out of the system untreated.

 
   

 

Should government give away free medicines?

Based on a study on affordability of drugs, Filipino wage earners must forego up to a day's worth of income to access drugs. What are the options for policy makers to address this issue?
 
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