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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 195 - PROVIDING
A MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM TO FILIPINO OVERSEAS CONTRACT WORKERS AND THEIR
DEPENDENTS AND PRESCRIBING THE MECHANISM THEREFOR
WHEREAS, it is the avowed policy of
the government to provide adequate medical care services to the people;
WHEREAS, under the present policy, among the private working sector,
only members of the Social Security System who are employed within the
Philippines are compulsorily covered by the Philippine Medical Care
Program (Law);
WHEREAS, studies show that a large number of overseas contract workers
and their dependents, which comprise a significant portion of the
Filipino population, are not assured of any medical care, in view of
the lack of a program with a compulsory coverage;
WHEREAS, Filipino Overseas Contract Workers and their dependents must
likewise be assisted in their medical care expenses consistent with the
policy for their counterpart local workers and their dependents;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Medical Care Commission, the Department of
Labor and Employment thru the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, the Department
of Foreign Affairs, and the Social Security System have enough
facilities and manpower to ensure the effective and efficient medical
care coverage of the Filipino Overseas Contract Workers and their
dependents under a program similar to Program I of the Philippine
Medical Care Plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
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Done in the City of Manila,
this 13th day of August in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety four.
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