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The Department of Health and PhilHealth should not be begging for funds. They should automatically be getting what is due them from the TRAIN Law. But for 2020, the two agencies’ sin tax dividends are P28.3 billion short of what Republic Act 11346 guarantees. This results in

PMA cadets are “Iskolars ng Bayan” too, whose studies are shouldered by taxpayers. In fact, on a per student subsidy, they occupy the top tier in the country’s million-plus public college student population. Using the previous four years’ appropriations and reported number of

Government will be funding the studies of 44,475 science scholars next year – including 1,927 in PhD and 4,264 in Masters programs – as part of the “national talent pool the country needs to win the future,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. The 2020 cost of the

The Department of Health (DOH) wants to spend P629 million for advertising next year, just one of its many information-related expenses in 2020 that can be tapped to fight the fake news on vaccines, which has kept many children from getting them. This was pointed out by Senate

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today batted for an increase in the government’s budgetary subsidy to five specialty hospitals in Quezon City which draw patients from all over the country. These are Philippine Heart Center (PHC), the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP),

With the signing of the revised rules on GCTA, it is hoped that our Justice and prison officials will work overtime like elves in Santa’s workshop to bring the genuinely sick, infirm, old, terminally-ill prisoners home to their families this Christmas. The President is correct –

If the Secretary of DND was left clueless about the China Telecom-AFP deal in his own backyard, then maybe it is time to install a radar system in his office. If this deal can fly stealthily under the nose of the man responsible for our nation’s defense, then it raises anew the

Ang pagsunog sa imprenta ng Abante ay kagagawan ng mga duwag at takot sa katotohanan. Ito ay pakana ng mga taong nangangamba na ang madilim nilang mga gawain ay mabibisto ng liwanag ng sulo ng malayang pamamahayag. Hindi nila alam na batay sa ating kasaysaysan, ang taktika ng

Government should “top off” the proposed P7.5 billion national immunization budget for 2020 with funds for an information campaign that will roll back fake news-triggered “vaccine hesitancy” among parents. The proposal was made by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, who