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Moves to boost the nation’s health defenses during the “timeout” are needed not only to stop the pandemic from reaching its tipping point, “but also to get the country ready for another calamity – typhoons.” “Kung ang COVID-19 ay isang unos, may mga bagyo pang parating,” Senate

Senate Committee of the Whole hearing on the alleged corruption in PhilHealth – August 4, 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: Sa pahayag ng PhilHealth na masisimot na ang actuarial funds nila sa susunod na taon, nilinaw ni Senator Recto na: May P110 billion Reserve Fund ang PhilHealth para sa

I will not rush to conclude that these are doctored data. What I would ask of them is a better explanation of the methodology used. And a breakdown, per town, so it will give us a high-resolution picture. Let academics vet and validate it for our enlightenment, to confirm if the

How can government reward medical frontliners? Let us count some of the ways. Release of hazard pay, now na. Regularization. Promotion. As to promotion, kung di pa kaya ng mass testing sa tao, mass promotion muna sa mga nagta-trabaho. There are two kinds of job promotion. One is

EXPLANATION OF VOTE SB 1564: Bayanihan to Recover As One Act Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 28 July 2020 Mr. President:  Today we hit the ground running as befits the call of the times.  The virus may be faster than the bureaucracy, but it should not be

Let us also swab-test the other, more important VIPs – the Very Important Pasaheros.  I am referring to LSIs who have been packed for days in quarters so crammed that physical distancing was impossible, even for those adamant in observing it. If we have tested for free

EXPLANATION OF VOTE SB 1564: Bayanihan to Recover As One Act Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 28 July 2020 Mr. President:  Today we hit the ground running as befits the call of the times.  The virus may be faster than the bureaucracy, but it should not be

I think people are not looking forward to the soaring oratory, the poetry of a traditional SONA. They are not even interested in bold strokes. What they want to hear is the to-do list in a wartime SONA that will spell out the battle plan against the pandemic. Specifically, they

There is a group of forgotten and neglected health frontliners to whom the nation owes so much—the social workers in public clinics and hospitals. The best belated thank you card that we can give them is to make their minimum pay equal to nurses, P32,035 a month, that of Salary

The Expanded Program of Immunization has a budget of P7.5 billion this year, to cover about 12 million individuals, from infants to seniors.  As of end of June 2020, only 2.8 million individuals, not even one-fourth of the target, have been vaccinated. That is the sad