healthcare, does anyone cares?

Healthcare may not be as popular as the economy as the world grip into recession. Our ailing healthcare system particularly has been in constant disarray due to persistent negligence by the government as it always receive meager annual budget. It is sad to note that our government is fixated so much on building billion-dollar infrastructure that healthcare is always taken aback. Although we need these infrastructure to advanced economically but it is disappointing to learn that even useless or unnecessary projects are given much importance such that of the ZTE, which many experts says we don’t need it actually. I don’t know why healthcare is not given high priority despite the huge revenues from VAT. It is unfortunate and disheartening to witness the sad state that engulfs our healthcare system. If the government fails to address the problem soon I think our nation will plunge into trouble.
I don’t even saw in TV or read in the news that our government is proposing a healthcare system that will somehow improve the lives of 90 million Filipinos. I am looking forward and hoping high that we can have a better healthcare system that will benefit largely the indigents and impoverish ones. If and only if the government is serious in addressing the problems that plagued the healthcare system it should stop dolling out fat pork barrels to politicians and instead allocate it to health. Unfortunately, our country is so politicized that even the healthcare system is not spared. A system overhaul is needed to wipe politics out to our healthcare and instead focus in delivering better health care services to the people.
Our president is bragging that we can achieve a first world status in 10 or 20 years time which obviously unattainable considering we can’t even improve the healthcare system in our country. We are way too far to those well - developed countries wherein the healthcare system is at par which we wish to have. Health must always be the priority with government alongside with the education. We need a healthy citizenry to be more productive, effective, and competitive that will consequently elevate us into a first world status.
Improving the healthcare system will have a tremendous effect to lives of our people. It will lead to better healthcare services and improves the life expectancy of our people. Instead of spending for those mega-infrastructure projects why not spent it for our health?