I am reading left and right at my dialysis group in Facebook that some of the dialysis centers are closing. The reason is that the government health insurance is not paying those centers so they would go bankrupt in effect.
Almost all dialysis patients are using "Philhealth" to sustain their dialysis treatments. I for one use it and scrimping the use of the 90 allocated sessions per year so that I will at least extend it until the middle of the month of November.
Then afterwards the government lottery service would allow the patients by then to apply for dialysis treatments to patch-up their succeeding dialysis needs. It would depend on how much they would give for the dialysis patients if the patients did applied assistance for some reason before that then they would get less.
But some patients goes three times per week dialysis so now most of their allocations are all used-up by now and are dizzyingly scrambling about where to get an assistance for their next dialysis, so it will get tough for them financially and might cost their lives in the process.
But the issue now was the Philhealth not being able to pay to the dialysis centers which make me think about the dialysis center where I am getting my treatment. If they will not be paid then where would the hospital that owns it buy the supplies needed for the dialysis center?
So of course they would close and that is a real and present danger for me because things would go south from that point on. Why would philhealth not able to pay the dialysis center? Because they cannot collect revenue anymore as many people are out of work and cannot pay.
I hope that this fear and worry of mine is not valid and that Philhealth has enough funds to cover for the needs of the patients for sometime. So the government must have to balance the restrictions so that the economy would roll again while the citizens are observing the new strict normal because this country of mine is just poor and could not sustain the needs of its citizens in a lockdown for long..