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Prioritize health and education
ZUBIRI: PUBLIC SERVICE MUST BE EFFICIENT

As the race for the senate officially begins today, United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) senatorial candidate Juan Miguel Zubiri emphasized the need for good leaders and efficiency in governance that will address the basic need for healthcare and education of the country’s poorest households.

“Public service must be efficient and responsive to the basic needs of the poor, particularly in the areas of health and education to which they are entitled as a matter of right,” Zubiri said in a media interview today in Cebu.

For one, the former senator emphasized the need to provide optimal financial risk protection for indigent hospital patients. Citing the successful health care program being implemented in his hometown province, Bukidnon, Zubiri said indigent patients no longer worry of their hospital bill with the effective implementation of their “No Balance Billing” policy program.

Having seen extreme poverty in many rural areas and in most of the thickly populated urban centers, Zubiri noted that Philhealth is not sufficient enough to help indigent patients as at most it only covers 40 to 50 percent of the total hospital bill.

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