President Ferdinand Marcos Jr answers questions regarding the 2025 National Budget including issues circulating the budget cuts on PhilHealth and DepEd in an ambush interview held at Kalayaan Hall in Malacañang in Manila City on December 16, 2024. (Santi San Juan | MB)
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00:00We're not yet there. We're not yet at that point. The process is still ongoing. We're still finalizing because ang lumabas out of the BICOM were just the totals.
00:17So the details are not yet clear. So we are returning to those and all of those elements that are worrisome are something that we're trying to, we're making sure that we're not creating a disadvantage.
00:37Since we're already here, the two subjects are PhilHealth and... PhilHealth has a Php500 billion reserve and the cost to provide their services in one year is less than Php100 billion.
01:04So their budget actually for expenditures in Php160 billion is Php100 plus billion. So meron pa ring reserve. That's why I know na habala ang tao because bakit datin binawasan?
01:34Dahil hindi nagamit yun ng ilang taon. In other words, the PhilHealth has sufficient budget to do all of the things that they want to do.
02:04We have more dialysis patients. We are attending to more people. That's from the budget of 2023 and 2024. So patuloy ng patuloy, pataas ng pataas. Pati yung pagbayad. Ang payments ngayon natin for cancer, for the other diseases, hundreds of percent ang increase doon sa dati.
02:34The reason why is that the reason that we do not want to subsidize it is because it is the subsidy with hook lang doon sa bank account ng PhilHealth. Hindi magagamit. Marami tayong paggamitan noon.
03:04Ang problema ngayon sa PhilHealth hindi tungkol sa pagbigay ng serbisyo, hindi sa pagbigay ng insurance cover. Hindi yan ang problema. Kulang sila sa budget kaya hindi silang nakakapagalaga ng tao. Kulang sila sa budget kaya malikit ang bayad. Hindi yan ang problema.
03:31Ang problema kung titignan ninyo, you look at the reports that are happening, sa dami ng bagong services ng PhilHealth, sa dami ng bagong payment na binibigay ng PhilHealth, napapara ang sistema. You can see there are in the provinces, mayroong mga tao nag-aantay, buong araw yung pilat 200 tao nag-aantay, nag-claim, mag-claim sila.
03:57Pero that's what happened in PhilHealth. Yung ang problema sa PhilHealth."
04:27... because yung nawala na P10B comes from the computerization item. So we're working on it to make sure that we will restore it. I do not want to line item V to anything because that just gets in the way.
04:57... Maybe this is the first thing. Hindi pa buo ang sagot ko. Pero sasabihin ko na sa inyo, tinatrabaho namin. Kailangan ang kailangan. 12B from an original request of 12B to be reduced down to 2.
05:27... when in fact we have to do more. So yan nga, we have to figure that out. But we are.
05:57... the unappropriated funds in the reserves. Now I'm saying, I asked the House, huwag na natin kasi papalik-palikan pa natin yan para mailagay dun sa project which is a delay.
06:27... pinapalitan talaga natin the way we do things para maging mas mabilis ang takbo. We're off to the end of the year. We're 2.5 years already. We have 3.5 years left. We have to get these things done. We have to get all the structures in place already.
06:57... the insertions in the public works, and see which ones are absolutely necessary. And maybe will, baka yung iba, titignan natin kung talaga bang critical. We'll see.
07:28... important. And don't forget flood control became such a big part of the work of the Department of Public Works. They have to build things that we never had to build before.
07:42... pinabantayan lang namin especially the ODA project, pinabantayan talaga namin, is to make sure that our debt ratios are still relatively manageable. And we are.
08:12... ganito wala tayong choice. We have to spend for people's support, to support people pagka nalagay sinasalan.