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PhilHealth fund back in question as House probes 2026 budget
August 20, 2025
|The Freeman
Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said the government is prepared to return billions in unused funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) if ordered by the Supreme Court, but warned that doing so would widen the country's deficit and put its credit rating at risk.
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The House's first briefing on the 2026 budget saw lawmakers grill economic managers on the P6.793-trillion proposal, questioning expenditures and transactions deemed unclear over the past year.
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