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No reduction in PhilHealth services, PBBM assures

19 December 2024

Services provided by PhilHealth to its members will stay despite lawmakers rejecting its proposed budget for 2025, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. assured on Thursday.

“I would like to just assure everybody, huwag niyong inaalala na mababawasan ang serbisyo kahit na kanino. Para sa senior, para sa mga mahirap, para sa middle class, walang mababawasan kahit isang kusing,” he said.

Earlier this week, the bicameral conference committee disapproved PhilHealth’s proposed PhP74 billion budget for next year, citing the state insurer has P600 billion in its coffers left unspent.

President Marcos assured the government of exhausting measures to maximize the benefits Filipinos can get from PhilHealth.

“Dadagdagan natin ‘yan in 2025. Mas dadami pa ang magiging serbisyo na ibinibigay ng PhilHealth. Mas lalaki pa ang magiging payment na ibibigay sa insurance claim,” he said. | PND