Aug 20 2020 11:49 AMMANILA -- Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has "moral liability" over 5 million health cards that were allegedly used to boost the 2004 election campaign of then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, even if he was cleared by the Office of the Ombudsman, Sen.
Grace Poe said Thursday.Poe said whistleblowers had said Duque, then CEO of state medical insurer PhilHealth, allegedly ordered regional vice presidents to distribute the health cards to counter the 5-million lead of her late father, then presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., in pre-election surveys.
The state-run corporation started incurring losses in 2004 due to its failure to pay hospital services given to the health card holders, said Poe, quoting Dennis.