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No Filipino fighting for his or her life should have to ask this question: “Do we have enough money to get admitted?” Yet for countless Filipino families, that question comes even before the doctor gives a diagnosis. A father suffers chest pains, but hesitates to go to the hospital because he fears the bill more than the illness. A mother postpones her laboratory tests so the family can pay the month’s rent. An elderly couple buys only half of their prescribed...