Philippine president praises PAGCOR for dividend contribution<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legal study has warned that the planned privatisation operations could reduce annual funding for the country’s Universal Health Care programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A legal study by Geronimo Law warns that the planned privatization of PAGCOR's Casino Filipino operations could create an annual funding gap of PHP1.7bn-PHP2.1bn for the Philippines' Universal Health Care program. While the reform addresses PAGCOR's conflict of interest as both regulator and operator, the shift from gaming revenue contributions to lower license fees and non-allocated asset sale proceeds necessitates identifying alternative UHC funding sources.","focusai_entities":"Geronimo Law, PAGCOR, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, National Treasury, Governance Commission for Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations, Office of the President, Alejandro Tengco","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"UHC Funding Alternatives?","query":"What specific alternative funding mechanisms are policymakers considering to mitigate the projected PHP1.7bn-PHP2.1bn annual shortfall for the Universal Health Care program post-PAGCOR privatization?"},{"label":"Regulatory Separation Impact?","query":"Beyond addressing the conflict of interest, how will the full separation of PAGCOR's regulatory and commercial functions by 2028 impact the overall governance framework and licensing efficiency for iGaming and land-based operators in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[25365,24814,405,24804],"class_list":["post-777045526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-casino-filipino","tag-healthcare","tag-pagcor","tag-the-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777045526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777045532,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045526\/revisions\/777045532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777045526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777045526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777045526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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