WHILE PhilHealth is in the mood to publish its accomplishments, specifically for hemodialysis and high-burden conditions like breast cancer from P100,000 to P1.4 million (the other benefits were motherhood statements, or in street parlance, "drawings"), let us focus on these two for the meantime.
In its rejoinder to my column ("Why, PhilHealth?"), published as a letter to the editor on July 25, PhilHealth said it had increased hemodialysis packages from 90 to 156 sessions (or an additional 75 sessions) and increased financial coverage to P4,000 per session. This totals P624,000 per patient per year. They did not indicate how many patients are undergoing dialysis at least three times a week, nor did they define if the "hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke, high-risk pneumonia, bronchial asthma and neonatal sepsis" fall under the same P1.4 million rationalized packages.
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