What senior citizens need is assurance of being able to get adequate and affordable healthcare services. Loose change discounts from groceries and restaurants are not enough recognition of the services senior citizens have done for this country.
I believe my doctors deserved every peso in their fees. And the hospital couldn’t have provided excellent care if they cut corners to bring costs down. The cost of getting adequate health care is simply unaffordable even for the middle class without health insurance. And if you are poor needing a heart bypass or cancer treatment, you just wait to die.
“Pagtitiis, which means enduring symptoms of health conditions, involves refusing to seek treatment and resorting to self-medication. Filipinos would also turn to alternative or traditional medicine. It is the middle class that is most affected by money problems involving hospitalizations. Facilities in government hospitals are often lacking as it is to cover the poorest Filipinos. The middle-class with growing families have to go to private hospitals and take on the added financial load for the medical bills of ailing senior citizen parents because they can’t very well do nothing.
Given the government’s inability to provide adequate and timely health services in state hospitals, the government should allow deduction of hospital bills from taxes seniors must pay, a form of patient-government partnership. Government continues to collect taxes from whatever little income seniors still earn. Additionally, seniors have also paid taxes when they were young and healthy. The government is obligated to provide help at this time of their lives.
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