In 2020, the national government gave away a record-high P230.4 billion in subsidies to government-owned and -controlled corporations , of which P62.4 billion or 27 percent went to PhilHealth, the latest Bureau of the Treasury data showed.The subsidies that PhilHealth received last year were lower than the P72.7 billion in 2019, but it remained the recipient of the biggest annual amount among state-run corporations for the seventh straight year or since 2014.
While it should be efficiently implementing the national health insurance program to fight COVID-19, PhilHealth had instead been implicated in a number of corruption allegations, including mismanagement of funds amid the pandemic.
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