MY question is why is the news from PhilHealth always bad news? From the recent past, we have the venality of some of its executives, the inefficiency of its delivery, the bureaucratic quagmire that it imposes on whom they need to serve, to their dismayingly unprotected digital branch that left them vulnerable, neglectful and existentially in peril to the detriment of the people they are supposed to serve. Is this incompetence or is it worse?
The very latest in the long list of infuriating bad news is their so-called excess funds being transferred somewhere else. With a population of 118 million to serve, a large portion of them on the margins of poverty, if not in utter poverty, where is PhilHealth as a medical insurance agency as well as vis-à-vis the Universal Health Care Law? How can there be excess funds with so much need? Only if the services they are supposed to give are not delivered as they should.
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