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Greater Medical Assistance (GMA) sa Bayan-Anihan

It is a program of President Arroyo to provide medical assistance to indigent Filipinos. In support to this project, DAR initiated GMA sa Bayan-Anihan which aims to provide medical assistance to ARBs and their household; to enhance the ability of ARB to be more economically productive and defray cost of hospitalization expenses. This is through social health insurance and Philippine Health Insurance (Philhealth) with the collaboration of local government units (LGU), and the ARB organization. A feature of this program is a community health care delivery and self-financing system.

GlaxoSmithKline INC. (GSKF) and Philhealth signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the project "ARC Savings for Health Micro-Insurance" to pilot-test a community-managed social health insurance known as graduated enrollment scheme. This scheme shall tap the cooperatives with the collaboration of LGU, Philhealth and other indigent organizations to manage their own social health insurance service. Indigent ARBs who are cooperative members can enroll in the program to sustain their re-enrollment in the succeeding years. The cooperative shall be capacitated to install and strengthen their saving mobilization that will form part of the counterpart fund for the health care services once they graduated to Individually Paying Program (IPP) and move towards managing community-based social health insurance or Philhealth's Organized Group Interface.