Section 39Sec./Art. 39

Oversight Provision. - There is hereby created a Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Universal Health Care to conduct a regular review, of the implementation of this Act which shall entail a systematic evaluation of the performance, impact or accomplishments of this Act and the performance of the various agencies involved in realizing universal health care, particularly with respect to their roles and functions.

The Joint Congressional Oversight Committee shall be jointly chaired by the Chairpersons of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography and the House of Representatives Committee on Health. It shall be composed of five (5) members from the Senate and five (5) members from the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively.

The National Economic and Development Authority, in coordination with the PSA, National Institutes of Health, and other academic institutions shall undertake studies to validate and evaluate the accomplishments of this Act. These validation studies and annual reports, on the performance of the DOH and PhilHealth shall be submitted to the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee.

The DOH and PhilHealth shall allocate an adequate funding for the purpose of conducting these studies.

The Joint Congressional Oversight Committee shall commission an independent study to evaluate the implementation of this Act.