PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday justified the scrapping of the P74-billion subsidy for the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), insisting that the agency has "sufficient funds to carry on."

In a chance interview with reporters in Malacañang, Marcos noted that the state insurer has P500 billion in reserve funds.

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