In a country where illness is already a sentence to poverty, the deliberate weakening of PhilHealth is nothing short of state-sponsored cruelty.
While ordinary Filipinos line up in overcrowded public hospitals, beg for guarantees, borrow money for dialysis, chemotherapy, or emergency surgery, the government quietly starves the very institution meant to protect them.
The numbers do not lie. From 2023 to 2025 alone, PhilHealth suffered a staggering ₱356.6 billion funding deficit—despite clear legal mandates requiring full government support.
This is not an accident.
This is a choice.
While PhilHealth bled, lawmakers and the administration poured billions into politically convenient “ayuda” programs—medical assistance turned into modern-day pork barrel for continued political existence. These funds do not strengthen healthcare systems, do not improve hospitals, do not ensure universal coverage. They serve one purpose: “political survival, not public service.”‼️
Let us be brutally honest.
A sick Filipino today does not feel “growth.”
A poor family facing hospitalization does not eat “propaganda.”
They feel abandonment.
Beyond the ₱60 billion already manipulated and mishandled, this administration has shown neither competence nor urgency to fix PhilHealth’s structural collapse. If this pattern continues until the end of the term, PhilHealth alone could reach a staggering ₱1 trillion deficit—a “death sentence” for universal healthcare in everything but name.
And who pays the price?
Not the corrupt.
Not the lawmakers with guaranteed healthcare.
Not the officials with private hospitals and foreign insurance.
It is the ordinary labor force and taxpayers who delays treatment until it’s too late.
The mother who chooses which child gets fed and medicine.
The senior citizen who skips checkups because “wala nang PhilHealth.” 🤬
This is not mere incompetence.
This is moral bankruptcy.
There is no clear, progressive healthcare agenda. No long-term vision. No genuine reform. Only recycled slogans, bogus projects, fund manipulation, and a government skilled only in stealing quietly while smiling publicly.
They call this governance.
The poor call it suffering.
History will call it betrayal.
So we ask, not for amusement but for awakening:
🤔Are we not entertained yet?
Or will we continue clapping for false loyalty and political manipulations?while our hospitals crumble, our health insurance collapses, and our people die not because cures do not exist—but because corruption does⁉️
The tragedy is not that the system is broken.
The tragedy is that it is being broken on purpose.
