Wilmarie Hope L.

Aliling BSPHAR1-D

According to WHO, a health care system is defined “as a coherent whole, consisting of
many interrelated component parts, both sectoral and intersectoral, as well as the community
itself, which produce a combined effect on the health of the population.” In my view, the health
care system is composed of all organizations, agencies, and services directed at supporting,
restoring, and preserving peoples' health.

The Philippines has PhilHealth (the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation) as a national
health care system. It is commanded to them “to provide health insurance coverage and ensure
affordable, acceptable, available, and accessible healthcare services for all citizens of the
Philippines.” However, the agency has never fully served its purpose, since there are still
barangays that suffer from a lack of medical services (e.g. medicines) in their respective health
centers. Also, some lack doctors, midwives, nurses, etc. - which is to say that the purpose has not
been taking effect in some areas in the country. These happenings are unaligned with which they
are ordered to have available and accessible healthcare services for the people. These are just
some of the issues that I can discuss with respect to what I have seen and read, and all I can
conclude is that the health care system in the Philippines is unsatisfactorily organizing its
allocation of money, funding, administration, and implementation of health services. It needs
changes from the top, down to the grassroots level of the society.