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    PhilHealth or PhilWealth

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    PhilHealth is facing allegations of missing 15 billion pesos due to a syndicate engaging in practices like reimbursements for ghost patients and overpayments. This is affecting Filipino citizens as PhilHealth funds come from salary deductions and it is preventing accessible healthcare. Citizens have a right to be angry as PhilHealth was intended to support healthcare needs, not enrich officials. Raising contribution rates and claims of liquidating funds are seen as cover ups rather than taking responsibility. Overall the issue is harming Filipinos during a pandemic and a search for real transparency is needed.

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    PhilHealth or PhilWealth

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    PhilHealth is facing allegations of missing 15 billion pesos due to a syndicate engaging in practices like reimbursements for ghost patients and overpayments. This is affecting Filipino citizens as PhilHealth funds come from salary deductions and it is preventing accessible healthcare. Citizens have a right to be angry as PhilHealth was intended to support healthcare needs, not enrich officials. Raising contribution rates and claims of liquidating funds are seen as cover ups rather than taking responsibility. Overall the issue is harming Filipinos during a pandemic and a search for real transparency is needed.

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    PhilHealth is facing allegations of missing 15 billion pesos due to a syndicate engaging in practices like reimbursements for ghost patients and overpayments. This is affecting Filipino citizens as PhilHealth funds come from salary deductions and it is preventing accessible healthcare. Citizens have a right to be angry as PhilHealth was intended to support healthcare needs, not enrich officials. Raising contribution rates and claims of liquidating funds are seen as cover ups rather than taking responsibility. Overall the issue is harming Filipinos during a pandemic and a search for real transparency is needed.

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    PhilHealth or PhilWealth

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    PhilHealth is facing allegations of missing 15 billion pesos due to a syndicate engaging in practices like reimbursements for ghost patients and overpayments. This is affecting Filipino citizens as PhilHealth funds come from salary deductions and it is preventing accessible healthcare. Citizens have a right to be angry as PhilHealth was intended to support healthcare needs, not enrich officials. Raising contribution rates and claims of liquidating funds are seen as cover ups rather than taking responsibility. Overall the issue is harming Filipinos during a pandemic and a search for real transparency is needed.

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    Topic: Missing 15 billion in Philhealth

    PhilHealth or PhilWealth?

    Exactly a year ago, our country Philippines started its own profound battle against
    the Corona Virus Disease 2019 commonly known as the CoViD-19. Inclined with
    this; a prompt scarcity of funds surfaced due to the sudden economic down-slope at
    9.5 percentile— the world-bank reported last 2020. Furthermore, the need of financial
    assistance is still prominent; we have numerous hospitals to fund, health equipment
    and commodities to take care of, medical workers to compensate, and most especially,
    Filipinos to protect. However, amidst the said health dilemma of the nation, last
    August 2020 the headlines were stamped with a controversial graft and corruption
    allegations that involves the largest public insurance company of the Filipinos—
    Philhealth.

    It was reported that almost 15 Billion pesos were smacked by a syndicate whistle
    blower. A lot of factors were seen to bridge this huge crime such as reimbursements
    for ghost patients, over-payments, misleading claims, and up-casing of not so severe
    illnesses just to generate a higher budget. Also, the overpriced CoViD response
    throughout the pandemic was a massive part as well. As a Filipino citizen, I have the
    right to be mad with this allegations and so are you. Philhealth is established to
    provide healthcare subsidy for those unfortunate, not to fill the pockets of those
    privileged officers.

    Now, let me state a few points why should we be mad and furious regarding the
    mentioned matter.

    First, Philhealth is from the diminished salary taxes of working Filipinos. A


    specific percentage of their monthly compensation were being deducted for the
    philhealth contribution and clearly, this issue is a transparent representation that it is
    us— the Filipinos who are being robbed. Our workers are striving monthly and these
    people will just easily take the said percentage away from them? It is unjust. It is so
    wrong. No one deserves to be snatched a benefit that he nor she was paying for from
    the start.

    Second, healthcare should be accessible. Again, Philhealth was established to


    support the healthcare needs of the Filipinos and at this point of time I can say that
    our healthcare situation is filled with much toxicity and suffering—not just from the
    perspective of a medical worker but of a normal citizen as well. This graft issue is
    taking this accessibility for our countrymen. This corruption scheme has been an
    unfair cycle for us. Healthcare should be sustainable and convenient especially in
    circumstances like this.

    Lastly, Philhealth is not taking the responsibility of the mentioned allegation.


    Instead of taking responsibility, the solution that they have imposed is to increase the
    monthly Philhealth contribution of the members. You see, this is a skeptical move.
    Why would they raise the percentage of contribution if the funds are not missing just
    like how they claim it to be? Another cover up that they have built for their-selves is
    the recent 'liquidation' assertion that they have issued publicly. This gained so much
    questions are doubts from the people because as how it is obvious— healthcare funds
    are lacking and insufficient. To analogize, this is a big joke that the government can
    not swallow, so they are using other methodologies to take the lump out.

    To summarize, the Philhealth issue is affecting every Filipino citizen living in this
    country as of now, we are being aggrieved amidst a pandemic, so we should take our
    right to speak up and search for real transparency.

    Filipinos deserve better. We deserve more than false statements and hypocrite
    speeches, more than huge graft schemes from our own government officials, more
    than insensitive fascist administration. We deserve better.

    Now, I think it is time for you to ask yourself. Is this insurance company still
    has the merits to be called 'Philhealth' or should we revise it as 'Philwealth'?

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