FILIPINOS long reeling from the bloatedand runaway prizes of medicine in the country should stand up and be heard (and counted) today on the scandalously high cost of healthcare here.  

There should now be a serious and sustained effort among all of us low and middle-income Pinoys to :
1.      Fight the brazen attempt of the  influential Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) and their lobbyists to kill in the water  Senate Bill No. 2139 that aims to lower drug prices  by amending the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, which Code has  become, in a manner of speaking, the refuge of scoundrels; and , Read more