If there is one amendment in the 2025 GAA that is worth mentioning, Congress has rectified a legally flawed provision under the 2024 GAA by deleting Special Provision (d) under the Unprogrammed Appropriations which allowed the executive branch to realign “excess PhilHealth funds” to the National Treasury.
This bars the Department of Finance from gobbling up PhilHealth funds in 2025. This may have also rendered the pending SC petitions on this particular issue moot and academic.
Making noise makes sense after all.
Thanks also to Dra Minguita and her team for looking into the Philhealth issue. You are fortunate Sir Ping to have someone like Dra. Minguita on your team. We support you!!!
The present Congress does not know what they are doing. They only know how to protect their own interests. ..
– Remo Manuel