PhilHealth chief downplays threat of private hospitals group to cut ties

      MANILA, Philippines --- Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) chief Ricardo Morales downplayed the threat of a private hospitals group to cut ties with the government health insurance agency. Morales said this is nothing but an empty threat and the public has nothing to worry about. "First, this is not 600 hospitals. This is the statement of one person, of Dr. Rustico Jimenez. So, this is actually an empty threat and our people should have nothing to worry about," Morales said in an interview with ANC Headstart aired Thursday. The Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAPI), whose president is Jimenez, earlier wrote an open...

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