Officials of PhilHealth who have been tagged as members of a “mafia” that is behind irregularities in the state health insurer could not have lorded it over the agency if they could be suspended for mere misconduct, Sen. Ping Lacson said.
Lacson said Ferrer and Salvador should expound and present evidence in the next hearing about the control that the group supposedly exerted over the PhilHealth leadership.
The two former PhilHealth officials also claimed that the eight had refused to abide by the PhilHealth board’s order transferring them to other posts. Lacson said even Sen. Richard Gordon, who presided over the hearing as head of the Senate blue ribbon committee, did not expect that the alleged mafia members were already inside the hearing venue at the Senate’s Session Hall.
“Sadly, these warnings fell on deaf ears, leading to the sorry state PhilHealth finds itself in today,” it claimed.
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