MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) president and CEO Ricardo Morales admitted that the “systemic” fraud within the agency cannot be solved in one year, or even in years to come. ADVERTISEMENTDuring Tuesday’s resumption of the Senate investigation into alleged anomalies in PhilHealth, Morales said that fraud “has always been in the system.”“Fraud has always been in the system as it has always been in all similar health systems in the world,” he said. “The problem is systemic and cannot be solved in one year, maybe not even in three years,” he added. The PhilHealth chief also admitted miscalculating the time required to get an IT system up and running, which he earlier touted could address fraud in the agency. “PhilHealth welcomes all this attention upon PhilHealth because it may finally give this organization that is meant to directly uplift the lives of all Filipinos the prominence and attention it truly deserve,” he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 11, 2020 03:19 UTC