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The Universal Health Care Act (UHC), which is also known as R.A. 11223 that
established the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP). This law was enacted that
will also improve the governance of local health care governance. I personally witnessed
the facilities of some government hospitals in Manila and the Province of Pangasinan.
Where medicines are not sufficient to the public and the medical equipment needs an
improvement. This law ensures that every Filipino has the right for the proper health care
system of the UHC is significant because this provision is relevant to the health care
system that we currently have in our municipalities/city that is reliant on the funding of
their respective local governments. This law will be inclusive to widen the reach of the
health care that people can benefit from. The reason why Sec. 19 is of relevance because
the local governments and provincial governments are the ones that can reach the
legislation that will give every Filipino the right to have a proper health care. The
Jurisprudence of this study would be G.R. No. 191225, where it will examine the current
NHIP and the previous NHIP that was enacted in the mentioned case. The scope of this
study is whether the UHC is legislation passed by Congress that will affect the Filipino