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75 health groups buck tiered PhilHealth benefits
The Philippine Star
|July 03, 2026
Seventy-five national health care professional organizations are opposing the proposal to provide different benefit packages for direct and indirect contributors to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).
“As health care professionals, we care for Filipinos from every walk of life. We do not see them as direct or indirect contributors. We see them as patients who need our care. That is why we are deeply concerned by your proposal to provide different PhilHealth benefits for direct and indirect contributors,” the groups said in an open letter to Executive Secretary Ralph Recto, read in a press briefing yesterday.
Recto is pushing for expanded PhilHealth benefit packages for paying (direct contributor) members so that benefits become commensurate with their premiums.
Concerned groups said the Universal Health Care Act was never intended to divide Filipinos into different tiers of health protection.
This story is from the July 03, 2026 edition of The Philippine Star.
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