President Rodrigo Duterte gave the newly installed Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) chief, Dante Gierran, until December to reform the embattled agency.

At a televised briefing on Thursday, Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. confirmed that the President was considering abolishing PhilHealth if Gierran would fail to rehabilitate the state health insurer by year end.

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