00:00While we hear of free hospitalization in the UH-run hospital,
00:06the reality on the ground, especially in the provinces,
00:08is that many provincial, district, and municipal hospitals still lack resource.
00:16Ang totoo, sa maraming probinsya, kailangan pa ring magbayad kahit simpleng gamutan.
00:24WHO data shows the Philippines has only one hospital bed per 1,000 people,
00:33far below the global average of 2.7 and the World Health Organization standard of 3 to 5.
00:43Compare this to hundreds of provincial districts and municipal hospitals serving most Filipinos,
00:51especially in far-flung areas.
00:54The President's health claims sounded impressive until you asked someone who actually went to the hospital.
01:02PhilHealth daw covers emergency outpatient care.
01:06Pero ang kwento ng mga pasyente, konsumisyon na nga ang sakit, konsumisyon pa ang bill.
01:12The agency says reimbursement is possible, but in an emergency, who has time and money for a bono.
01:20Sa dami ng kwentong ganito ang tanong, sino ba ang niloloko natin?
01:26The President says there's now a doctor in every town.
01:31Good.
01:32But a lone doctor without medicine, without equipment, without trained staff, is not a health system.
01:39That's a photo op waiting to happen.
01:41Zero balance billing has also been around for years, but walk into any public hospital and ask if it's real.
01:50Patients still choose not to seek treatment, afraid of the bill that might bury them deeper than the illness.
01:57If the goal is universal health care, then let's stop pretending we have arrived.
02:03We're still stuck in triage.
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