Sona 2026: Nearly 3M patients got zero-balance billing – Marcos

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MANILA, Philippines — Nearly three million Filipinos have received treatment without paying out of pocket under the government’s zero-balance billing policy in Department of Health (DOH) hospital wards, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in his fifth State of the