MANILA, Philippines — Three Senate panels have backed up the bill institutionalizing the Medical Assistance to Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients (Maifip) via the Universal Healthcare Medical Assistance Program (UHC MAP). Senate Bill No. 1593 — recently approved by the Senate committees on health and demography, social justice, welfare and rural development, and finance — seeks to establish the UHC MAP. “With the overarching goal of ensuring adequate financial protection for all Filipinos in need of medical care, there is, hereby, established the Universal Healthcare Medical Assistance Program (UHC МАР),  which shall provide medical assistance for a range of medical services to indigent and […]... Keep on reading: Senate panels back universal healthcare medical assistance program