THE Senate Committee on Health and Demography, led by Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, approved on Tuesday measures that will defer the scheduled monthly contribution rates increase of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).

“President [Rodrigo] Duterte has agreed to temporarily suspend the increase in PhilHealth contribution rates while we are in a pandemic,” Go said. “When the [Universal Health Care Act] was crafted, no one knew that a pandemic would hit us. Although the increase in PhilHealth contributions ensures sufficient funding for the health care of its members … it is only reasonable and equitable to postpone incremental premiums due to the bad economic conditions caused by [the crisis].”

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