reaction to doray...

I read your blogpost, Doray, after leaving the comment. My opinion (which you may not agree):I think the opening is a little bit misleading. If people would read it first, it may strike someone else's nerve because the issue had become a gender sensitive one. Wala lang. I know that you meant well and you want it to be an introduction for your entry....but if read alone, that statement is something

Dami kong gustong i-comment. Here are my two cents (sorry medyo mahaba):

1. I think the government is the only one to blame for not having universal healthcare. Hindi lang local government because economics-wise, if we don't have a good health insurance system, hindi sya sustainable. Parang med mission lang ang mangyayari...pag Pasko lang nagkakaroon ng health care ang mahihirap.

2. Health system pa rin ang may kagagawan kung bakit walang bilib ang mga taong bayan sa isang general practitioner. They would rather go straight to a cardiologist, or any specialist for their smallest concern. Kasi, kung magbabayad na nga lang ang A and B crowd, e di sa specialista na. Hayaan na lang ang mga C and D na maghintay ng libre. My point: it's not cost efficient...would have been avoided if we have a working health system.

3. Due to lack of money, they’ve been putting of circumcision.--->Kala ko ba the Philippine College of Surgeons and the PMA are trying to veer us away from the culture of circumcision? Kasi wala namang studies/benefit and it is just a cultural thing? I wouldn't blame a patient if he doesn't want to be circumcised, or would want it at 25 years old....

4. It is hard to help our country if we are not even in it! (hehe). I disagree. I'll be writing about this government and how it sucks and that will be my contribution. My way to redeem my civil liberties and right of self-expression. I am born Filipino afterall, democracy is on my side. Hehe. I would stay if my family is uber-rich, if the Philippines would pay for the cost of treating my patient, if I will receive a paycheck that I think is fair for the amount of time I spent 10 years studying medicine for...and I don't want to be corrupted by this government and the lousy health system just to have stuff that I think I deserve.

5. THERE IS HOPE. I think there won't be a universal health care system in the country in the near future, not in the next 15-20 years. Hope is far, far away. Right now, health is not a government priority, which is a big stupidity. Right now, kanya-kanya na lang talaga tayo. Bahala ka kung kanino ka kukuha ng pampagamot mo...kung kaninong doktor ka pupunta. But when it happens, I can actually say na nagising na ang mga Pilipino. Nagtutulungan na tayo.