TheGoodGuy01

"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma." - Patrick Star

[TheGoodGuy01 @Guy01Good]

I still love my person, but I have to accept that he doesn’t love me anymore.

[radar PH @radarph_media]

PhilHealth is omnipresent in every Filipino’s payslip, taking money whether workers like it or not. Yet in moments of greatest need, it often feels absent.

That’s what happened in the viral case of Maria Lourdes Sulit. Her husband Marvin contributed for over 25 years. When he died of a brain hematoma, PhilHealth declined to cover their nearly ₱200,000 hospital bill.

The reason: a technicality. He was confined for less than 24 hours. Under PhilHealth Circular No. 2020-0007, inpatient benefits require a 24-hour stay. But Circular No. 2025-0020 allows outpatient emergency benefits in cases ending in death within 24 hours. So which is it, then?

Sulit’s case is yet another crack in a system already under strain.

PhilHealth is mandatory under the Universal Health Care Law. Every Filipino is automatically enrolled, meaning every worker is required to contribute—regardless of income, preference, or private coverage.

And that has long been a point of frustration. Ask any tito, tita, tropa, or kakilala, and a familiar story emerges: PhilHealth often covers only a fraction of the bill. Families still shoulder significant out-of-pocket expenses.

Then come the administrative failures: the delays, the waiting, the stress on top of the hospitalization stresses.

Private health maintenance organizations help fill some of the gap. But even they can only do so much, often still leaving families exposed to catastrophic expenses that the public system is supposed to cushion.

And then, there’s the issue that refuses to go away: corruption.

PhilHealth has been repeatedly drawn into controversies involving anomalous claims, questionable reimbursements, and fund management issues that have reached Congress and the courts.

The latest one involved around ₱60 billion in excess funds—transferred to the national treasury. The Supreme Court later ruled that it’s unconstitutional, questioning whether health funds were being redirected away from their intended purpose.

The money has since been restored to PhilHealth, but its image isn’t getting any better. To many, it remains an agency that collects mandatory contributions, yet Filipinos don't get what they pay for.

Calls to abolish PhilHealth continue to surface. Let Filipinos keep their money. Rely on private insurance or personal means instead.

It’s understandable—especially in cases like Sulit’s—but abolition without replacement risks dismantling the country’s only nationwide health risk pool.

For all its flaws, PhilHealth remains the only attempt at universal coverage at scale. Removing it wouldn’t erase the need for protection.

So the real issue is not just whether to abolish PhilHealth, but what must replace or radically reform it.

Our Asian neighbors have made clearer choices. Thailand funds universal healthcare through general taxation, allowing patients to access care with minimal or no out-of-pocket costs. Malaysia heavily subsidizes public hospitals, keeping treatment affordable and predictable. South Korea operates a hybrid system where mandatory contributions are matched with reliable, structured coverage at the point of care.

The Philippines remains stuck in between: compulsory contributions without guaranteed protection, universal enrollment without universal certainty.

Now, the question is no longer whether PhilHealth should exist. Can it continue in its current form when the gap between contribution and protection remains this wide?

Can Filipinos still afford to pay premiums to a system they cannot rely on in a life-and-death situation?

Otherwise, PhilHealth only gives Filipinos hell.

[Jumel Bornilla, M.D. @jvbornillamd]

Ikulong si Alan Cayetano, Robinhood at Aplasca, dahil sa pagpapatakas nila kay BATO. That’s the tweet!

[yimika| @yimikaaaa]

i want me back, this isn’t me.

[𓆩♡𓆪 @dontlovedave]

don’t cry at my funeral. just walk out like you did at my lowest

[$ @jxtsummer]

things will be better, just wait.

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

I will win.

[luna @lunarfq]

RT for good luck

[Thembi_Nyathi @Thembithemedium]

A narcissist will provoke you until they bring out the worst in you, and then play the victim when you go there.

[🦢’ @ecstxsyovo]

please do not be the reason someone hates themselves or feels hurt, if you cannot make life better for anyone then at the very least don’t make it worse, please be kind, please take others feelings into consideration, please don’t add more pain into this world, just be better.

[blue @bluewmist]

My therapist told me:

“When a person grows up feeling unseen, they learn to love by over-giving. They pour into everyone else, hoping that, one day, someone will finally pour back into them. So they become the care taker. The fixer. The one who shows up, even when no one shows up for them.”
And the hardest part? Deep down, they're not trying to be strong. They're just waiting for someone to do for them what they've spent their whole life doing for everyone else.

[Kush @kush_147]

Sometimes the person who had access to you doesn't realize how unreachable you are to everyone else, until they become everyone else

[𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚎 @mcpadaoan]

not all wounds fade quickly, some stay to remind you that growth has a cost.

[Medias With Project Moon Sound Effects @projectmoon_fv]

SOUTH EAST ASIA IS IN HELL AND I AM BEING ROASTED ALIVE BY THE WEATHER

[Arky @arkcarlly]

Ikaw din ba?? do you find yourself worrying about your future? I mean, you feel you have already been left behind? You even questioned your capability as a person. You stopped and tried to figure out everything that was happening to you and you realized that you're getting older.

[TheGoodGuy01 @Guy01Good]

Minsan nararamdaman ko parang pinapatay ko sarili ko kasi kinakausap ko sila.