Senate inquiry not the wisest way to probe PhilHealth irregularities

THE many vicissitudes and complications that are cropping up in the Senate’s investigation of the alleged financial wrongdoing at the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) should open the nation’s eyes to the dubious logic and practicality of relying on a legislative inquiry to ferret out the facts of corruption and mismanagement at the state-led health insurance agency.

First, evidently alarmed at the extent of corruption at PhilHealth, President Duterte has ordered the Department of Justice to constitute an inter-agency task force to investigate the claims of systemic corruption in the state health insurer.