The Anti-Corruption Hypocrisy

Sometime in September, amid the coronavirus pandemic, a gargantuan corruption scandal of fund mismanagement and overpricing shook up the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth, the agency tasked with helping finance Covid-19 testing and treatment in the country. Illegal or invalid fund releases were placed at P14.9 billion. Looking back since 2003, however, fraudulent transactions … Continue reading The Anti-Corruption Hypocrisy