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Solivagant.

[GentriSenyo 🌊☀️🏝️ @GentriSenyo]

Tortured, stabbed, faces burned and nilagyan ng bato ang katawan para hindi lumutang - they did these INSIDE an INC Chapel. Taenaaaa ang hayop. Demonyo yung gumawa

[oƃᴉñʎ @_ynigo]

Naiyak na lang sa takot and/or frustration yung rider dahil pinagbantaan siya tapos yung pulis sinabihan lang siya na pagpasensyahan na lang. Naging miron yung pulis amputa.

[Thomas thee Tankengine @goodkidbikecity]

This should tell everyone how much the government actually lies when they say it's hard to make space for pedestrians, cyclists, and commuters. They can do it overnight for a mob defending an accused plunderer.

[Coco @_dacoconutnut]

Imagine INC ka na galit sa mga santo ng Katoliko pero sinasamba mo ang mga Duterte, Manalo, at si Marcoleta.

Mga hipokrito.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

my cat doesn’t know that she’s the most effective suicide prevention strategy there ever was

[Brisa ⚢ @moid_destr0yer]

It's so depressing how horrible Nature is to women. Like, it's so easy for a male to fuck a woman and ruin her life, even in consented pregnancies.

[ًkael @intokaiser]

kamiss lumabas ng bahay tas dala mo lang 20 pero makakabili ka na ng softdrinks tas chichirya

[Patoune @PitPitrouillee]

Pov : tu achètes un tapis rafraîchissant pour ton chat

[pedro @duanostalgica]

é tão satisfatório ver alguem com extremo bom gosto vivendo, aproveitando e fazendo exatamente o que eu faria se eu tivesse o dinheiro que ela tem

[Alina ♰ @emalkova22]

All this shi just to die on a random day

[` @crestieyy]

“huy bat ang payat mo, ano secret mo?” kahirapan, baket

[cha @kjjunist]

anong money can’t buy happiness eh ano tawag dito

[radar PH @radarph_media]

PhilHealth is omnipresent in every Filipino’s payslip, taking money whether workers like it or not. Yet in moments of greatest need, it often feels absent.

That’s what happened in the viral case of Maria Lourdes Sulit. Her husband Marvin contributed for over 25 years. When he died of a brain hematoma, PhilHealth declined to cover their nearly ₱200,000 hospital bill.

The reason: a technicality. He was confined for less than 24 hours. Under PhilHealth Circular No. 2020-0007, inpatient benefits require a 24-hour stay. But Circular No. 2025-0020 allows outpatient emergency benefits in cases ending in death within 24 hours. So which is it, then?

Sulit’s case is yet another crack in a system already under strain.

PhilHealth is mandatory under the Universal Health Care Law. Every Filipino is automatically enrolled, meaning every worker is required to contribute—regardless of income, preference, or private coverage.

And that has long been a point of frustration. Ask any tito, tita, tropa, or kakilala, and a familiar story emerges: PhilHealth often covers only a fraction of the bill. Families still shoulder significant out-of-pocket expenses.

Then come the administrative failures: the delays, the waiting, the stress on top of the hospitalization stresses.

Private health maintenance organizations help fill some of the gap. But even they can only do so much, often still leaving families exposed to catastrophic expenses that the public system is supposed to cushion.

And then, there’s the issue that refuses to go away: corruption.

PhilHealth has been repeatedly drawn into controversies involving anomalous claims, questionable reimbursements, and fund management issues that have reached Congress and the courts.

The latest one involved around ₱60 billion in excess funds—transferred to the national treasury. The Supreme Court later ruled that it’s unconstitutional, questioning whether health funds were being redirected away from their intended purpose.

The money has since been restored to PhilHealth, but its image isn’t getting any better. To many, it remains an agency that collects mandatory contributions, yet Filipinos don't get what they pay for.

Calls to abolish PhilHealth continue to surface. Let Filipinos keep their money. Rely on private insurance or personal means instead.

It’s understandable—especially in cases like Sulit’s—but abolition without replacement risks dismantling the country’s only nationwide health risk pool.

For all its flaws, PhilHealth remains the only attempt at universal coverage at scale. Removing it wouldn’t erase the need for protection.

So the real issue is not just whether to abolish PhilHealth, but what must replace or radically reform it.

Our Asian neighbors have made clearer choices. Thailand funds universal healthcare through general taxation, allowing patients to access care with minimal or no out-of-pocket costs. Malaysia heavily subsidizes public hospitals, keeping treatment affordable and predictable. South Korea operates a hybrid system where mandatory contributions are matched with reliable, structured coverage at the point of care.

The Philippines remains stuck in between: compulsory contributions without guaranteed protection, universal enrollment without universal certainty.

Now, the question is no longer whether PhilHealth should exist. Can it continue in its current form when the gap between contribution and protection remains this wide?

Can Filipinos still afford to pay premiums to a system they cannot rely on in a life-and-death situation?

Otherwise, PhilHealth only gives Filipinos hell.

[Kush @kushika_twt]

The first trillionaire being announced before the end of child poverty is not a success story.

It’s a moral failure.

[𝐕𝐓 @volleytiger]

“I repeatedly told the Ateneo university that children are not safe around him.”

— Efthymia “Efi” Baldwin, wife of Tab Baldwin

😮😮😮

[ִֶָ @nagcacrashout]

gago kamiss ung may iuupdate kang kausap mo habang nasa outing kayo ng pamilya mo tas ang hirap itagong may kachat ka kasi sa gitna ka pinaupo sa sasakyan HHAHAAHWJJAHAHAJAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Thomas thee Tankengine @goodkidbikecity]

Bobo yung legal theory nila, pero they're not interested in justice. Yung mangyayari dito is they'll exploit her for the views tapos when they ultimately fail they'll continue exploiting their inevitable failure to drum up their other grievances and motives. Kawawa yung ina

[Magnolia Suckass @iamJoweyn]

And right on q. The motherfuckers have started. Fucking pose the trademark fist.

Yeah. It says a lot.

[Magnolia Suckass @iamJoweyn]

Ateneo, let me remind y'all that Rene is Mindanaos pride. Now that you fuck up, those DDS influencers, politicians, and pricks will use that as their leverage.

This might sound heartless but those fuckers doesn't care about the case. What they do care is optics.