{"id":264465,"date":"2020-08-07T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264465"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:34:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:34:48","slug":"total-cleansing-not-abolition-to-solve-philhealth-mess-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/07\/total-cleansing-not-abolition-to-solve-philhealth-mess-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Total cleansing, not abolition to solve PhilHealth mess: group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204928\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-204928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n.jpg 520w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Friday, President Rodrigo Duterte directed the Department of Justice to create a task force to probe the supposed widespread corruption within PhilHealth. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilHealthofficial\/photos\/a.261644413900245\/1115766561821355\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilHealthofficial\/\">Philippine Health Insurance Corporation\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A labor group on Friday expressed concern over lawmakers\u2019 calls to abolish the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), which has been hounded by anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are likewise concerned with the statements of several congressmen calling for the abolition of PhilHealth by replacing it with a new one,\u201d the Partido Manggagawa said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the right time to push for the abolition of the state insurance firm, the group said adding that total cleansing and justice are needed to save it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA health crisis is certainly not a good time to kill a health insurance system. Justice and total cleansing, we contend, is what will save the system from ultimate collapse,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the group expressed hope that the House of Representatives\u2019 investigation on the supposed anomalies in PhilHealth would not be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is for this reason that we call on Congress, as well as the Executive (branch of government), to ensure that neither delay nor diversion affects the ongoing investigation as the Filipino people deserve truth and justice on this issue,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, President Rodrigo Duterte directed the Department of Justice to create a task force to probe the supposed widespread corruption within PhilHealth.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s order came after resigned PhilHealth anti-fraud officer Thorsson Monte Keith claimed that some PHP15 billion of the agency\u2019s funds had been pocketed by some corrupt officials.<\/p>\n<p>Keith also disclosed that all members of the state firm\u2019s executive committee composed the \u201cmafia\u201d, which had been allegedly siphoning funds from PhilHealth in the past years through fraudulent transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 A labor group on Friday expressed concern over lawmakers\u2019 calls to abolish the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":204928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264466,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264465\/revisions\/264466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}