As of this writing, the healthcare system in the Philippines is still developing to reach high standards. It is a known fact that Filipino medical staff are highly trained yet challenged with different circumstances that hamper the developments that the government aims for. 

While the overall quality of the Philippines’ state-subsidized public healthcare is good, healthcare in rural areas is of significantly lower quality than at hospitals in large cities. Such conditions consequently gave private healthcare providers more consistent care, and facilities tend to be better equipped than public ones – which is unaffordable by default. 

Healthcare services are considered to be expensive by locals, hence some of the locals would resort not to visiting a doctor because of its costs. Medical inflation in the Philippines is expected to increase to 13.7 percent in 2019 from 13 percent in 2018. Vietnam currently has the highest medical costs in the region at 14.2 percent this year, lower than 14.5 percent in 2018.

Medical costs, the report stated, are bound to continue increasing and will even outpace inflation by close to three times this year and even higher in 2020. Health care is becoming more expensive due to “high-cost pharmaceuticals, new diagnostics, and procedures, and overprescribing of low-value health tests and procedures,” the consulting firm observed.

It is from this situation that Filipinos should take healthcare seriously by having a healthcare plan to cope with such a situation. Check out Kaiser International Healthgroup and its healthcare plans that would suit your needs on its website: https://www.kaiserhealthgroup.com/