Bacareza, W. R. (2014). Beyond the arc: A study on the mandate of true universal healthcare (UHC) for the poor (Unpublished master's thesis). Public Management Development Program, Development Academy of the Philippines.

Public Management Development Program. Batch 3 Senior Executives Class. Thesis (SEC)--Development Academy of the Philippines.

Ensuring that all people have equal access to high- quality health care to help them live healthy and productive lives is a core goal of a high performance health system. In the Philippines, living healthy matters especially for the poor or those low income earners. However, it is without doubt that many of our citizens especially the poor are still deprived of access to quality healthcare. Statistics show that the reasons for non-availment, if not all are non-membership, ineligibility or lacking the qualifying contributions and stringent availment processes. The government though embraces the challenge. It is their mandate and obligation. PhilHealth has been created by the government to act on the mandate of providing health insurance coverage. This is in consonance to the fundamental law of the land or to the Constitution which states under Section 11, "The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services available to all the people at affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the underpriviledged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers." But such mandate if we go deeper will not only involve covering the citizens with the needed health insurance but likewise ensuring the delivery of full and quality healthcare. Despite the efforts of the government, the gap is still unaddressed. The gap is very simple to understand. This means that there is a need to link the health care providers with the members, ensure that all facilities are fully equiped with medical needs, the poor, the old and the women and children should be automatically covered and as mush as possible with no co-pay. This paper will now, if not all, capture and address the need for policy intervention which the proponent deemed necessary for the law making body of the government to pass upon and to be implemented by the Executive branch of the government. This paper will be instrumental to answer the never ending need of accessible and quality health care most especially the high risk sector of the society.