The House of Representatives has approved House Bill 7437 or the Anti-privatization of Public Hospitals, Health Facilities and Health Services Act that bars the Health secretary or any other person from initiating, causing or approving the privatization of any public hospital, public health facility or public health services, whether natural or juridical.
The bill defines privatization as a process in which non-government actors become increasingly involved in the financing and the provision of health care services which includes outright sale, public-probate partnership, corporatization, contracting out of equipment, joint venture, franchising, management control and leasing and user changes.
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