— Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque denounced Ricardo Morales, president of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation , for failure to curb corruption in the agency in a series of tweets on Wednesday night, followed by a public rant during a Malacañang briefing.?,” Roque, author of the Universal Health Care Law when he was a party-list representative during the 17th Congress, said in his Thursday briefing.
[Translation: The collection from the direct contributors has dropped significantly because businesses are down, no one is paying premiums among the direct contributors.] In an interview with CNN Philippines' News Night, PhilHealth Spokesperson Shirley Domingo clarified that the agency has actually started implementing the law, but some provisions might have to wait.
Roque said he will arrange a meeting with Morales and President Rodrigo Duterte to sort out issues in the agency once and for all.due to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused them to lose jobs and return to the country.On allegations that PhilHealth has failed to pay hospitals, Domingo said some claims may be denied due to lack of data and other requirements.
Roque served as the lawyer of the scam’s whistleblowers Edwin Roberto and Liezel Santos, employees of WellMed Dialysis and Laboratory Center in Novaliches, Quezon City, who exposed the hospital’s continuing filing of claims for dialysis of dead patients.
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