HOUSEHOLDS continued to account for the bulk of the country’s health expenses, according to the latest Total Health Expenditure data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority .
Of this amount, PSA said 44.7 percent was accounted for by Filipino households. This share was higher than that of the government, whose share was 44.2 percent of the total. Based on PSA data, the share of households in CHE was also higher than the share of the general government in 2019. In that year, households accounted for 48.8 percent of CHE while the general government accounted for 40.8 percent of CHE.
General government also included the share of local governments at 9.7 percent and social security agencies at 13.6 percent, which was mainly extended by PhilHealth.