{"id":270343,"date":"2020-09-30T02:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270343"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:14:48","slug":"guevarra-firm-on-philhealth-revamp-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/30\/guevarra-firm-on-philhealth-revamp-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Guevarra firm on PhilHealth revamp recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244728\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20180402-ph-JAL_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-244728\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20180402-ph-JAL_1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20180402-ph-JAL_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20180402-ph-JAL_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20180402-ph-JAL_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20180402-ph-JAL_1.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra announces during a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday stood firm on the Task Force PhilHealth&#8217;s recommendation for a major reorganization in the management of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our report to the President (Rodrigo Duterte), we recommended that the GCG (Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG), which is under the Office of the President), be directed to study the possible reorganization and the creation of an interim management committee in the meantime,&#8221; Guevarra told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Guevarra, who heads the task force which is looking into anomalies in the state insurer, said abolishing or privatizing PhilHealth would &#8220;need congressional action&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a public address on Monday night, President Rodrigo Duterte said he would propose to Congress the abolition of PhilHealth as a \u201csurgical move\u201d to address corruption in the state firm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cephalexin online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellthysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cephalexin.html\">www.wellthysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cephalexin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Duterte earlier said he believes Ombudsman Samuel Martires would eventually file corresponding charges against former PhilHealth president and chief executive officer Ricardo Morales and other officials.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellthysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/amoxil.html\">www.wellthysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/amoxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Duterte said the good rapport between the Ombudsman and the Executive department aided the probe into irregularities within the PhilHealth and lauded Martires for \u201ctrying his best\u201d to go after erring PhilHealth officials.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy motilium online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellthysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/motilium.html\">www.wellthysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/motilium.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Ombudsman earlier ordered a six-month suspension of 13 PhilHealth officials amid ongoing investigations on the alleged fraudulent activities within the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte approved the recommendation of Task Force PhilHealth to file criminal and administrative charges against PhilHealth officials.<\/p>\n<p>He repeatedly vowed to use his remaining years in office in cleaning PhilHealth and punish officials involved in illegal activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday stood firm on the Task Force PhilHealth&#8217;s recommendation for a major reorganization in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":244728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270343","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=270343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287905,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270343\/revisions\/287905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}