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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 277 -
DIRECTING PARTICIPATING NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENT UNITS TO ENSURE THE SPEEDY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL
HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
WHEREAS, the Philippine Constitution
declares that the State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive
program to health development which shall endeavor to make essential
goods, health and other social services available to all the people at
affordable costs; and that priority for the needs of the
underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children shall be
recognized; and that it shall be the policy of the State to provide
free medical care to paupers;
WHEREAS, RA 7875: The National
Health Insurance Act of 1995 has been enacted in line with the declared
policy of the State to provide adequate social services and improved
quality of life for all, and this purpose, the State shall adopt an
integrated and comprehensive approach towards health development;
WHEREAS, the Ten-Year Public
Investment Plan for the Health Sector (1994-2004) identifies national
health insurance as one of its priority public investment packages
towards a national framework for universal insurance coverage;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V.
RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the
powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
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DONE, in the
City of Manila, this 25th day of June in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen
Hundred and Ninety-Six.
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